Definition of base

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Base (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles..

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Pentacid :: Pentacid (a.) Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases..
Contrastimulant :: Contrastimulant (a.) Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants.
Free :: Free (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage..
Debasingly :: Debasingly (adv.) In a manner to debase.
Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..
Pentabasic :: Pentabasic (a.) Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.
Graves'' Disease :: Graves' disease () Same as Basedow's disease.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
Circumvallate :: Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue..
Self-abased :: Self-abased (a.) Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame..
Diamond :: Diamond (n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles..
Basal-nerved :: Basal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.
Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc..
Neck :: Neck (n.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
Onychia :: Onychia (n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail..
Incubous :: Incubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous..
Ignoble :: Ignoble (a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base..
Quartzoid :: Quartzoid (n.) A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six-sided pyramids, base to base..
Fluxion :: Fluxion (n.) A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method..
Apple :: Apple (n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
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