Basis may refer to:
Finance and accounting
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Adjusted basis, the net cost of an asset after adjusting for various tax-related items
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Basis point, 0.01%, often used in the context of interest rates
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Basis trading
Basis trading is a financial trading strategy which consists of the purchase of a particular financial instrument or commodity and the sale of its related derivative (for example the purchase of a particular bond and the sale of a related futures ...
, a trading strategy consisting of the purchase of a security and the sale of a similar security
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Basis of futures
Basis trading is a financial trading strategy which consists of the purchase of a particular financial instrument or commodity and the sale of its related derivative (for example the purchase of a particular bond and the sale of a related futures ...
, the value differential between a future and the spot price
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Basis (options), the value differential between a call option and a put option
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Basis swap, an interest rate swap
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Cost basis, in income tax law, the original cost of property adjusted for factors such as depreciation
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Tax basis, cost of an asset
and technology
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Basis function
In mathematics, a basis function is an element of a particular basis for a function space. Every function in the function space can be represented as a linear combination of basis functions, just as every vector in a vector space can be represen ...
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Basis (linear algebra)
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Dual basis
In linear algebra, given a vector space ''V'' with a basis ''B'' of vectors indexed by an index set ''I'' (the cardinality of ''I'' is the dimension of ''V''), the dual set of ''B'' is a set ''B''∗ of vectors in the dual space ''V''∗ with th ...
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Orthonormal basis
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Schauder basis
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Basis (universal algebra) In universal algebra, a basis is a structure inside of some (universal) algebras, which are called free algebras. It generates all algebra elements from its own elements by the algebra operations in an independent manner. It also represents the end ...
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Basis of a matroid
*Generating set of an
ideal
Ideal may refer to:
Philosophy
* Ideal (ethics), values that one actively pursues as goals
* Platonic ideal, a philosophical idea of trueness of form, associated with Plato
Mathematics
* Ideal (ring theory), special subsets of a ring considere ...
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Gröbner basis
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Hilbert's basis theorem
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Generating set of a group
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Base (topology)
In mathematics, a base (or basis) for the topology of a topological space is a family \mathcal of open subsets of such that every open set of the topology is equal to the union of some sub-family of \mathcal. For example, the set of all ope ...
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Change of basis
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Greedoid
In combinatorics, a greedoid is a type of set system. It arises from the notion of the matroid, which was originally introduced by Whitney in 1935 to study planar graphs and was later used by Edmonds to characterize a class of optimization proble ...
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Normal basis
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Polynomial basis
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Radial basis function
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Standard basis
In mathematics, the standard basis (also called natural basis or canonical basis) of a coordinate vector space (such as \mathbb^n or \mathbb^n) is the set of vectors whose components are all zero, except one that equals 1. For example, in the c ...
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Transcendence basis
In abstract algebra, the transcendence degree of a field extension ''L'' / ''K'' is a certain rather coarse measure of the "size" of the extension. Specifically, it is defined as the largest cardinality of an algebraically independent subset ...
of a field extension
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Basis database
Chemistry
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Basis (crystal structure), the positions of the atoms inside the unit cell
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Basis set (chemistry)
In theoretical and computational chemistry, a basis set is a set of functions (called basis functions) that is used to represent the electronic wave function in the Hartree–Fock method or density-functional theory in order to turn the partial ...
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Dry basis, an expression of a calculation in which the presence of water is ignored
Organizations
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Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is the national association of Software and information and communication technologies companies in Bangladesh.
History
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Ser ...
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Basis Educational Group
BASIS Educational Group. LLC, styled BASIS.ed, is a for-profit education management organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It serves primarily Basis Schools, Basis Charter Schools, a non-profit charter management organization with offices in th ...
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Basis Schools, a group of schools in Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Texas
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Basis Technology Corp.
BasisTech is a software company specializing in applying artificial intelligence techniques to understanding documents and unstructured data written in different languages. It has headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts and offices in San Franci ...
, a text analytics company
People
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Dimitris Basis, Greek singer
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Liron Basis (born 1974), Israeli footballer
See also
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Base (disambiguation)
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Basic (disambiguation)
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Basis of Union (disambiguation) Basis of Union may refer to:
*Basis of Union (Uniting Church in Australia) (1977)
*Basis of Union (Presbyterian Church of Australia)
The Basis of Union of the Presbyterian Church of Australia is the document under which the constituent state chur ...
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Basis set (disambiguation) Basis set may refer to:
* Basis (linear algebra)
* Basis set (chemistry)
In theoretical and computational chemistry, a basis set is a set of functions (called basis functions) that is used to represent the electronic wave function in the Hartre ...
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