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.
(accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
(topology) 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.
“By the end of 1926 I had been convinced as to the baselessness of the theory of existence of an almighty supreme being who created, guided and controlled the universe.”
“In the last act, when Tristan falsely imagines Isolde coming to him, his delusion is expressed by the violins' effervescence and its baselessness by the inactivity of the double basses, declining to participate.”
“The very baselessness of childhood fears offers parents an opportunity to teach their children a lesson that will last all their lives: that most fears exist only in the imagination.”
“The court analyzed regulations on the baseis of whether they enhanced a public right in property or whether they destroyed a fundamental attribute of ownership.”