English-Dutch translations for basis

• basis
  Ja, laten we het op vrijwillige basis doen. Yes, let us do it on a voluntary basis.
  Of kunnen ze daar op vrijwillige basis aan voldoen? Or may they comply on a voluntary basis?
  Dus er is zeker een basis voor vergelijking. So there is a basis for comparison.
• draagvlak
  Is het draagvlak voor een grondwet groot genoeg onder de burgers? Is there a sufficient constituent basis amongst European communities?
  Dit zal leiden tot meer draagvlak voor de Europese Unie. This will mean a more solid basis for the European Union.
  Beslissingen bovendien, waarvoor geen democratisch draagvlak bestaat. No democratic basis, moreover, exists for these decisions.

Definition of basis

• A physical base or foundation
• A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis
• An underlying condition or circumstance
• A regular frequency
• In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space
• A collection of subsets 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

Examples

• 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.
• The collection of all possible unions of basis elements of a basis is said to be the topology generated by that basis

Related words

• eigenbasis
• anabasis
• katabasis
• catabasis
• metabasis
• parabasis
• pseudobasis
• basis point
• basis vector