English-Portuguese translations for basis

• base
  Por isso, existe uma base para a comparação. So there is a basis for comparison.
  A investigação científica é a nossa base. Scientific research is our basis.
  É essa a base do nosso trabalho político.That is the basis of our political work.
• fundamento
  Qual é o fundamento de uma acção armada? What is the basis of armed action?
  Esse é o fundamento da democracia. That is the basis of democracy.
  Em que fundamentos baseou essa afirmação? What was the basis for this statement?

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