Base

Base or BASE may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

• BASE (mobile operator), a Belgian mobile telecommunications operator
• Base CRM, an enterprise software company founded in 2009 with offices in Mountain View and Kraków, Poland
• Base Design, an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and publishing firm
• Base FX, a visual effects and animation company founded in 2006 with studios in Beijing, Wuxi and Xiamen, China
• Budapest Aircraft Services, callsign BASE

Computing

• BASE (search engine), Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
• <base />, an HTML element
• Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual consistency (BASE), a consistency model
• Google Base, an online database provided by Google
• LibreOffice Base, LibreOffice's database module
• OpenOffice.org Base, OpenOffice.org's database module, also known as ooBase

Mathematics

• Base of computation, commonly called radix, the number of distinct digits in a positional numeral system
• Base of a logarithm, the number whose logarithm is 1
• Base (exponentiation), the number b in an expression of the form b^x
• Base (geometry), a side of a plane figure (for example a triangle) or face of a solid
• Base (group theory), a sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
• Base (topology), a type of generating set for a topological space

Organizations

• Backward Society Education, a Nepali non-governmental organization
• BASE (social centre), a self-managed social centre in Bristol, UK
• Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, a German federal environmental authority
• Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering, in Hillsboro, Oregon, US
• Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute
• British Association for Screen Entertainment
• Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, a high school in New York, US

Science and technology

• Base (chemistry), a substance that can accept hydrogen ions (protons)
• Base, an attribute to medication in pure form, for example erythromycin base
• Base, one of the three terminals of a Bipolar junction transistor
• BASE experiment, an antiproton experiment at CERN
• Base pair, a pair of connected nucleotides on complementary DNA and RNA strands
• Beta-alumina solid electrolyte, a fast ion conductor material
• Nucleobase, in genetics, the parts of DNA and RNA involved in forming base pairs
• Base (blockchain), an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain

Social science

• Base (politics), a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates
• Base and superstructure, parts of society in Marxist theory
• base slang / argot (cliques or sub-culture) for freebase cocaine

Sports

• Base (baseball), a station that must be touched by a runner
• Base, a position in some cheerleading stunts
• BASE jumping, parachuting or wingsuit flying from a fixed structure or cliff
• Base, a variant name for the children's game darebase

Other uses

• Base (character), character in Marvel Comics
• Base (EP), an album by South Korean singer Kim Jonghyun
• Base, Maharashtra, a village in India
• Rob Base (1967–2026), American rapper
• Base, or binder (material), a material that holds paint or other materials together
• Base, or foundation (architecture), the lowest and supporting layer of a structure
• Base, or foundation (cosmetics), a cosmetic applied to the face
• Base (heraldry), the lower part of the shield in heraldry
• Base, or pedestal, a supporting feature of a statue or other item
• Cooking base, a concentrated flavouring compound
• Military base, or non-military base camp, a bivouac which provides shelter, military equipment and personnel
• Base of operations (headquarters)

See also

• Base camp (disambiguation)
• Bases (disambiguation)
• Basis (disambiguation)
• Bass (disambiguation)
• Bottom (disambiguation)
• Radix (disambiguation)
• The Base (disambiguation)