Basic or BASIC may refer to:

Science and technology

BASIC BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ...

, a computer programming language *

Basic (chemistry) In chemistry, there are three definitions in common use of the word base, known as Arrhenius bases, Brønsted bases, and Lewis bases. All definitions agree that bases are substances that react with acids, as originally proposed by G.-F. Rou ...

, having the properties of a base *

Basic access authentication In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field i ...

, in HTTP

Entertainment

* ''Basic'' (film), a 2003 film * Basic, one of the languages in ''Star Wars''

Music

* ''Basic'' (Glen Campbell album), 1978 * ''Basic'' (Robert Quine and Fred Maher album), 1984 * ''B.A.S.I.C.'' (Alpinestars album), 2000 * ''Basic'' (Brown Eyed Girls album), 2015 * ''B.A.S.I.C.'' (The Basics album), 2019

Places

* Basic, Mississippi, a community in the US *

BASIC countries The BASIC countries (also Basic countries or BASIC) are a bloc of four large newly industrialized countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – formed by an agreement on 28 November 2009. The four committed to act jointly at the Cope ...

, Brazil, South Africa, India and China in climate change negotiations

Organizations

BASIC Bank Limited BASIC Bank Limited (founded as Bangladesh Small Industries and Commerce Bank) is a fully government owned bank in Bangladesh which was founded on 2 August 1988. The bank was founded to finance small enterprises. Abul Hashem is chairman of the ban ...

, government owned bank in Bangladesh *

Basic Books Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and history. H ...

, an American publisher

Other uses

Basic (cigarette) Basic is a U.S. brand of cigarettes, currently owned by Philip Morris International. Cigarettes are manufactured by Philip Morris USA in the U.S. and by PMI in the rest of the world. History Basic was launched in the late 1970s as a discount bran ...

, a brand of cigarettes manufactured by the Altria Group (Philip Morris Company) * Basic (dance move), the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance *

Basic (slang) "Basic" is a slang term in American popular culture used pejoratively to describe people who are perceived to prefer mainstream products, trends, and music. "Basic bitch" originated in hip hop culture and rose in popularity through rap music, son ...

, a pejorative term in American English * British American Security Information Council, a think tank based in London *

Bašić Bašić is a South Slavs, South Slavic surname. It is assumed that it derived from the word ''baša'', meaning "chief", itself a loanword from Turkish ''başı'', meaning "head". Its literal meaning is "Little chief". It is one of the most commo ...