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an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; "the established a baseline for the budget" service line: the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases
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any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" foundation: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" the bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain" (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull" floor: a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" basis: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle" basis: the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end basal: serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" al-Qaeda: a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal" root: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" infrastructure: the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds" the principal ingredient of a mixture; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base" establish: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" free-base: use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base" illegitimate station: assign to a station (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
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| base metal |
a metal that is common and not considered precious; "lead, iron, copper, tin, and zinc are base metals"
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| base pair |
one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA
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| base dissociation constant |
In chemistry and biochemistry, acid dissociation constant, the acidity constant, or the acid-ionization constant (Ka) is a specific type of equilibrium constant that indicates the extent of dissociation of hydrogen ions from an acid. While strong acids dissociate practically completely in solution and consequently have large acidity constants, weak acids do not fully dissociate and generally have acidity constants far less than 1. ...
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