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basic
Designating, of, or resulting from a process of manufacturing steel from high-phosphorus iron, in which the refining agent is a basic slag formed from a basic furnace lining and the addition of lime
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  1. Designating, of, or resulting from a process of manufacturing steel from high-phosphorus iron, in which the refining agent is a basic slag formed from a basic furnace lining and the addition of lime
  2. A simple programming language developed in the 1960s that is widely taught to students as a first programming language.
  3. Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis:
beginning
(Informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
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  1. (Informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
elementary
Of or having to do with the formal instruction of children in basic subjects
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  1. Of or having to do with the formal instruction of children in basic subjects
  2. Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or fundamental part:
  3. Of first principles, rudiments, or fundamentals; introductory; basic; simple
rudimentary
Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary:
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  1. Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary:
  2. Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
  3. Being in an early stage of development or having a simple form:
basic
A simple programming language developed in the 1960s that is widely taught to students as a first programming language.
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  1. A simple programming language developed in the 1960s that is widely taught to students as a first programming language.
  2. Designating, of, or resulting from a process of manufacturing steel from high-phosphorus iron, in which the refining agent is a basic slag formed from a basic furnace lining and the addition of lime
  3. Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis:
fundamental
Of or forming a foundation or basis; basic; essential
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  1. Of or forming a foundation or basis; basic; essential
  2. On which others are based; primary; original
  3. Relating to what is basic; radical
original
Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
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  1. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
  2. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
  3. Preceding all others in time; first:
primary
(Linguis.) Having as its fundamental form a base or other element that cannot be broken down
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  1. (Linguis.) Having as its fundamental form a base or other element that cannot be broken down
  2. From which others are derived; fundamental; elemental; basic
  3. Not derived from anything else; basic or original:
radical
(Medicine) Relating to or being surgery that is extreme or drastic in an effort to eradicate all existing or potential disease:
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  1. (Medicine) Relating to or being surgery that is extreme or drastic in an effort to eradicate all existing or potential disease:
  2. Arising from or going to a root or source; basic:
  3. Favoring fundamental or extreme change; specif., favoring basic change in the social or economic structure
underlying
Basic; fundamental:
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  1. Basic; fundamental:
  2. Taking precedence; prior:
  3. Basic or fundamental
Find another word for basal. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for basal, like: basic, beginning, elementary, rudimental, rudimentary, basic, foundational, fundamental, original, primary and radical.

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  • angles of 60° and 120°, and, with the exception of the basal planes, are only rarely bounded by smooth and well-defined faces.

  • The basal cell has less chlorophyll than the others, and is expanded and fixed firmly to the rock on which the plant grows by the basal surface, rh, thus forming a rudimentary rhizoid.

  • In the region of the neck lateral strands pass through the transverse canal of the cervical vertebrae; but from the thoracic region onwards, where the cardiac branch to the heart is given off, each strand is double and the basal ganglia are successively connected with the next by a branch which runs ventrally over the capitulum of the rib, and by another which passes directly through the foramen or space formed between capitulum and tuberculum.

  • The forebrain forms the bulk of the whole brain, but the large size of the hemispheres is due to the greater development of the basal and lateral portions (pedunculi cerebri and corpora striata), while the pallium (the portion external to the lateral ventricles) is thin, and restricted to the median side of each hemisphere.

  • in length, with a basal girth of 24 in.

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