basis plural
ba·sis
The plural form of basis is bases
B bDefinitions
- noun plural basis the bottom or base of anything; the part on which something stands or rests. 1
- noun plural basis anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork. 1
- noun plural basis the principal constituent; fundamental ingredient. 1
- noun plural basis a basic fact, amount, standard, etc., used in making computations, reaching conclusions, or the like: The nurse is paid on an hourly basis. He was chosen on the basis of his college grades. 1
- noun plural basis Mathematics. a set of linearly independent elements of a given vector space having the property that every element of the space can be written as a linear combination of the elements of the set. 1