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Base or BASE may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

  • Base (mobile telephony provider), a Belgian mobile telecommunications operator
  • Base CRM, an enterprise software company founded in 2009 with offices in Mountain View and Kraków, Poland
  • Base Design, an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and publishing firm
  • Base FX, a visual effects and animation company founded in 2006 with studios in Beijing, Wuxi and Xiamen, China
  • Budapest Aircraft Services, callsign BASE

Computing

  • BASE (search engine), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
  • <base></base>, an HTML element
  • Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual consistency (BASE), a consistency model
  • Google Base, an online database provided by Google
  • LibreOffice Base, LibreOffice's database module
  • OpenOffice Base, OpenOffice.org's database module, also known as ooBase

Mathematics

  • Base (exponentiation), the number b in an expression of the form bn, also the base of logarithms
  • Base (geometry), a side of a plane figure (for example a triangle) or face of a solid
  • Base (group theory), a sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
  • Base (topology), a type of generating set for a topological space
  • Radix or base, the number of distinct digits in a positional numeral system

Organizations

  • Backward Society Education, a Nepali non-governmental organization
  • Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering, part of Beaverton School District in Hillsboro, Oregon, US
  • Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute
  • British Association for Screen Entertainment
  • Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, a high school in New York, US

Science and technology

  • Base (chemistry), a substance that can accept hydrogen ions (protons)
  • Base, an attribute to medication in uncombined form, for example erythromycin base
  • Base, one of the three terminals of a Bipolar junction transistor
  • BASE experiment, an antiproton experiment at CERN
  • Base pair, a pair of connected nucleotides on complementary DNA and RNA strands
  • Beta-alumina solid electrolyte, a fast ion conductor material
  • Nucleobase, in genetics, the parts of DNA and RNA involved in forming base pairs

Social science

Sports

  • Base (baseball), the first, second, and third base on a baseball diamond
  • Base, a position in some cheerleading stunts
  • BASE jumping, parachuting or wingsuit flying from a fixed structure or cliff
  • Base, a variant name for the children's game darebase

Other uses

  • Base (EP), an album by South Korean singer Kim Jonghyun
  • Base, Maharashtra, a village in India
  • Rob Base, American rapper
  • Base, or binder (material), a material that holds paint or other materials together
  • Base, or foundation (architecture), the lowest and supporting layer of a structure
  • Base, or foundation (cosmetics), a cosmetic applied to the face
  • Base, in heraldry, the lower part of the shield
  • Base, or pedestal, a supporting feature of a statue or other item
  • Cooking base, a concentrated flavouring compound
  • Military base, or non-military base camp, a bivouac which provides shelter, military equipment and personnel

See also

  • Base camp (disambiguation)
  • Bases (disambiguation)
  • Basis (disambiguation)
  • Bass (disambiguation)
  • Bottom (disambiguation)
  • Radix (disambiguation)
  • The Base (disambiguation)
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