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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • chemistry Of or pertaining to a base; antonym of acidic
  • elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
  • necessary, essential for life or some process.

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Noun:

  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
  • military basic training.

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Proper noun:

  • programming A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
  • programming A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).

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