1. (Chemistry) Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base.
2. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
3. Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; SYN. canonic, canonical.
4. Serving as a base or starting point; SYN. introductory.

Množina: BASICs

Acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a high-level programming language developed in the mid-1960s by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College. It is widely considered one of the easiest programming languages to learn. See also True BASIC, Visual BASIC.
A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code); no longer in general use.
A high-level programming language designed at Dartmouth College as a learning tool. Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Chemistry, applied to salt with base atomically greater than acid; having alkaline reaction.
(acronym for beginner’s all-purpose symbolic instruction code) High-level computer-programming language, developed 1964, originally designed to take advantage of multiuser systems (which can be used by many people at the same time). The language is relatively easy to learn and is popular among microcomputer users.
Most versions make use of an interpreter, which translates BASIC into machine code and allows programs to be entered and run with no intermediate translation. Some more recent versions of BASIC allow a compiler to be used for this process.
Basic

Množina: basics

(Usually plural) A necessary commodity for which demand is constant; SYN. staple.

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Singular of basic criteria is basic criterium.

Singular of basic dyes is basic dye.

Množina: Basic Englishes

Simplified form of English devised and promoted by C K Ogden in the 1920s and 1930s as an international auxiliary language; as a route into Standard English for foreign learners; and as a reminder to the English-speaking world of the virtues of plain language. Its name derives from the initial letters of British, American, scientific, international, and commercial.
Basic has a vocabulary of 850 words (plus names, technical terms, and so on), only 18 of which are verbs or “operators”.
A simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication.

Množina: basic processes