Base or BASE may refer to:
In computing:
- BASE (search engine), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual consistency (BASE), a consistency model
- Google Base, an online database provided by Google
- OpenOffice.org Base, OpenOffice.org's database module, also known as ooBase
In mathematics:
- Base (geometry), a side of a plane figure (for example a triangle)
- Base (group theory), a sequence of distinct elements of a set
- Base (exponentiation), the number b in an expression of the form bn
- Base (topology), a topological space
- Radix or base, the number of distinct digits in a positional numeral system
In science:
- Base (chemistry), a substance that can accept hydrogen ions (protons)
- Beta-alumina solid electrolyte, a fast ion conductor material
- Base of the heart, a portion of the heart opposite the apex of the heart
- An attribute to medication in uncombined form, for example erythromycin base
In other uses:
- Base (baseball), the first, second, and third base on a baseball diamond
- Base (company), an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and publishing firm
- Base (politics), a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates
- Base, Maharashtra, village in India
- BASE (mobile), a Belgian mobile telecommunications operator
- Bedini Audio Spectral Enhancer, an audio signal processor used in the early 1990s
- Cooking base, a concentrated flavouring compound
- Binder (material), a material that holds paint or other materials together
- Foundation (cosmetics), a cosmetic applied to the face
- Foundation (architecture), the lowest and supporting layer of a structure
- Military base, or non-military base, which provides shelter, military equipment and personnel
- Pedestal, a supporting feature of a statue or other item
- Budapest Aircraft Services' callsign
- Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute
- Backward Society Education, a Nepali non-governmental organization.
- Base, a type of connection on a transistor
- Base, a position in some cheerleading stunts
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Famous quotes containing the word base:
“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it—low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion—and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)