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:
“Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapors that did seem to strangle him”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Then must you speak
Of one the lov’d not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe;”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)