basis

Significado (Inglés)

1. A physical base or foundation.
2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
4. A regular frequency.
5. The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
6. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
7. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
8. A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

Conceptos

base

fundamento

motivo

razón

cimiento

cimentación

basa

bases

fondo

principio

cimento

pedestal

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈbeɪ.sɪs/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (whence also come). Doublet of base.