Basel-stadt
a demicanton in N Switzerland: virtually coextensive with the city of Basel. 14 sq. mi. (36 sq. km).
Capital: Basel.
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morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly. of little or no value; worthless: hastily composed of base materials. debased or counterfeit: an attempt to eliminate the base coinage. characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing. of illegitimate birth. not classical or refined: base language. Old English Law. held by tenure […]
- Basement
a story of a building, partly or wholly underground. (in classical and Renaissance architecture) the portion of a building beneath the principal story, treated as a single compositional unit. the lowermost portion of a structure. the substructure of a columnar or arched construction. noun a partly or wholly underground storey of a building, esp the […]
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the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
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