Definition of Baic
Ba"sic (&?;), a. 1.
(Chem.) (a) Relating to a base; performing the
office of a base in a salt. (b) Having the base
in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the
acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
(c) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which
exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
2. (Min.) Said of crystalline rocks which
contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a
base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative
or acid element or radical.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
- An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
- necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
- elementary, simple, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta's accommodation is purely basic.
BASIC- (complang): A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.
Basic- (complang): A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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