Noun

(en-noun)

A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.

An underlying condition or circumstance.

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Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis , a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.

regular frequency

You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.

The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis .

Cars must be checked on a yearly basis .

(linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.

(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.

Noun

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.

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(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

* Jeremy Taylor

Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

(poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.