Definition of Basic

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Definition of Basic

Basic

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

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.

Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

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Basic Quotations

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II

Basic Translations

basic in Afrikaans is basies
basic in Dutch is basis-
Basic in German is BASIC, grundlegend
basic in Italian is base
basic in Swedish is grund

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