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Baseline (configuration management) Configuration management is the process of managing change in hardware, software, firmware, documentation, measurements, etc. As change requires an initial state and next state, the marking of significant states within a series of several changes becomes important.
Baseline (pharmacology) In pharmacology and matters of biochemistry, baseline describes a persons "state of mind" or being, in relation to drug use. For example, after an LSD trip, baseline would be the point where the user is completely under control and has no effects acting on him.
Baseline (sea) A baseline is the line from which the seaward limits of a State's territorial sea and certain other maritime zones of jurisdiction are measured. Normally, a sea baseline follows the low-water line (lowest astronomical tide) of a coastal State.
Baseline (surveying) In the United States Public Land Survey System, a baseline is the principal east-west line that divides survey townships between north and south. The baseline meets its corresponding meridian at the point of origin, or initial point, for the land survey.
Baseline Killer The Baseline Killer (or Baseline Rapist) is one of the serial killers that operated in the Phoenix area between 2004 and 2006 (the other being the Serial Shooters). The Baseline Killer is believed to have committed nine murders during this period in addition to a number of sexual assaults and armed robberies.
Baseline Road (Colorado) Baseline Road is a major east-west street in Boulder, Colorado that extends east of the city through parts of four counties. The western terminus of Baseline Road is at Flagstaff Mountain in the City of Boulder Mountain Parks.
Baseline Station (OC Transpo) Baseline Transitway Station is directly across from the main campus of Algonquin College in Ottawa's west end, off of Woodroffe Avenue and Baseline Road. Many Algonquin students and Centrepointe residents use this terminal to get to various points in the city, and of course, to get to the College.
Baselius Mar Thoma Mathews II His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Mathews II (born January 30, 1915 and died January 26, 2006) was the Supreme head of Indian Orthodox Church, which is also known as Malankara Orthodox Church. He was the 89th successor to the Holy Apostolic Throne of St.
Basella alba Basella alba is a perennial vine, popular as a leaf vegetable in many tropical regions, and only distantly related to spinach. Other names include Malabar spinach, Malabar climbing spinach, Ceylon spinach, Indian spinach, East-Indian spinach, Surinam spinach, Chinese spinach, Malabar nightshade, broad bologi, vine spinach, Vietnamese spinach, buffalo spinach, Bengali "PUI SAAG" & Bachhali (telugu).
Basement (geology) In geology, the terms basement and crystalline basement are used to define the rocks below a sedimentary platform or cover, or more generally any rock below sedimentary rocks or sedimentary basins that are metamorphic or igneous in origin. In the same way the sediments and/or sedimentary rocks on top of the basement can be called a "cover" or "sedimentary cover".
Basement comics Basement Comics is an independent comic book publisher, which publishes work from such artists as Budd Root, Frank Cho, Devon Massey, Chad Spilker, James Robert Smith, Loston Wallace and Dave Columbo. Their main "claim to fame" is the comic title Cavewoman.
Basement rock Basement rock usually refers to the thick foundation of ancient, and oldest metamorphic and igneous rock that forms the crust of continents, often in the form of granite. Basement rock is contrasted to overlying sedimentary rocks which are laid down on top of the basement rocks after the continent was formed, such as sandstone and limestone.
Basement Rock Basement or Basement Rock music was a subgenre coined in 2006 in an article by music magazine TGR. This was first in relation to the existence of underground record label Criminal Records but more for the independent bands they represent.
Basement show A basement show is a show, often of the punk rock or hardcore punk variety, that is held in the basement of a residential home, rather than at a traditional venue. Basement shows are normally held for a variety of reasons, chief of which are:
Basement Tape The Basement Tape is a set of 105 songs recorded by Bob Dylan in the cellar of "Big Pink", the house in West Saugerties, New York (near Woodstock) rented by some members of his former live backing band, The Hawks, in the spring and summer of 1967, shortly before the recording of the John Wesley Harding album in Nashville. The other musicians on these sessions were Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, and Richard Manuel; they later became The Band.
Basement waterproofing Basement waterproofing is needed in basements where outside water (such as: rain, melting ice, flooding) gets in through high water table, footing, cracked walls, plumbing leaks, etc. There are several ways to waterproof basements.
Basename basename is a common program found on Unix systems; typically it is the GNU Project's coreutils version, which is Free software. Given a pathname, it will return the name of the file that the pathname refers to.
Basenji The Basenji is a breed of dog considered by some, particularly in North America, to be a member of the sighthound family; most kennel clubs, including the American Kennel Club and the Kennel Club of the United Kingdom classify it as a hound. The Basenji is a Congolese hunting dog that rarely (if ever) barks (due to its unusually shaped larynxAdapted from the book "Why Pandas Do Handstands," 2006, by Augustus Brown.
BaseN BaseN is a Finnish company which is providing large-scale infrastructure measurement and management services. Founded in 2001 by its current CEO Pasi Hurri and other leading Finnish internet pioneers, it grew rapidly both in the domestic and international market.
Bases loaded In the sport of baseball, the bases are loaded when there is a runner on each base (1st, 2nd, and 3rd). This presents a great scoring opportunity for the batting team, but it also presents an easy double play opportunity for the other team.
Bases Loaded 3 Bases Loaded 3 is a baseball video game released in 1991 by Jaleco for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The object of the game is to win an exhibition game of baseball, as the game does not have a season play option.
Basfa Bay Area Science Fiction Association (BASFA) is one of the Bay Area's largest science fiction fandom organizations. The organization was founded at the SiliCon science fiction convention in 1989 by several Bay Area Smofs looking for a reason to meet.
Bash bash is a Unix shell written for the GNU Project. Its name is an acronym for Bourne-again shell — a pun ("Bourne again" / "born again") on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early, important Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix, circa 1978.
Bash: Latter-Day Plays Bash: Latter-Day Plays is a collection of three dark one act plays written by Neil LaBute. The play premiered at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater in New York City on June 24, 1999 and featured a performance by Calista Flockhart.
Bashahr Bashahr was a princely state in pre-independence India, located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory in the northern part of colonial Punjab that is now the Indian republic's state of Himachal Pradesh and traversed by the Sutlej river. It had an area of 8,907 km², and its capital was Sarahan.
Basham Brothers The Basham Brothers were a heel professional wrestling tag team who worked for World Wrestling Entertainment consisting of Doug Basham and Danny Basham. Because each bears such a strong resemblance to the other, the Bashams were billed as brothers in WWE storylines; in reality, however, they are not even related.
Bashan Bashan (Hebrew הבשן ha-Bashan, meaning "the light soil") is a biblical place first mentioned in , where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates "smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth," where Og the king of Bashan had his residence. At the time of Israel's entrance into the Promised Land, Og came out against them, but was utterly routed (; ).
Bashar ibn Burd Bashar ibn Burd (714-784) nicknamed "al-Mura'ath" meaning the wattled, was a poet in the late Umayyad and the early Abbasid periods. Bashar was of Persian origin; his grandfather was taken as a captive to Iraq, his father was a freedman (Mawla) of the Uqayl tribe.
Basharmal Sultani Basharmal Sultani (born January 28, 1985) is an Afghani Olympic athlete, who competed in boxing in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was invited to participate by the International Olympic Committee.
Bashaw, Alberta Bashaw is a town in central Alberta located at the junction of Highway 21] and [[Alberta provincial highway 53|Highway 53. Formerly one of the most recognizable sources of cheese production in Alberta, the Bashaw cheese plant has been closed since the spring of 2002.
Bashert Bashert, (Hebrew: באַשערט, also transliterated besherte, beshert or besherter) is a Yiddish word that means "destiny".Yiddish Dictionary Online entry; retrieved December 29, 2006 It is usually used in the context of one's Heavenly foreordained spouse or soul mate, and thus has very romantic overtones.
Bashful elephant The Bashful elephant is the name given to a small stalagmite in the Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, that has grown a bulbous top with stalactites hanging off creating "legs." Its shape gives the impression that it is facing away from somebody.
Bashguard A Bashguard is a device used on bicyles to protect components, usually the drivetrain, from damage in the case of a strike with an object, whether intentional or in a crash. There are two types, bashrings and bashplates.
Bashi Fen Bāshí Fēn (八十分; Eighty Points), Tuō Lā Jī (拖拉機; Tractor), Zhǎo Péngyǒu (找朋友; Looking for Friends), Dǎ Bǎi Fēn (打百分; Fighting for a Hundred Points), Sìshí Fēn (四十分; Forty Points), Shēng Jí (升級; Advance in Level), and Shuāi Èr (摔二; Throw Two) are all names for members of a closely-related family of trick-taking card games played in China and in Chinese immigrant communities. They can be classified as positive point-trick trick-taking games.
Bashi-bazouk A bashi-bazouk or bashibazouk (Turkish başıbozuk, "damaged head", meaning "leadless", "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. They were noted for their lack of discipline.
Bashing (pejorative) Bashing is a harsh, gratuitous, predjudicial attack on a person, group or subject. Literally, bashing is a term meaning to hit or, colloquially, to assault but when it is used as a suffix, or in conjunction with a noun indicating the subject being attacked, it is normally used to imply a sense of uncompromising vehemence and bigotry about the assailant.
Bashir al-Azma Bashir al-Azma, also spelled "al-Azama" (1910-1992) (Arabic: بشير العظَمة), was a doctor and a Syrian politician and head of state (16 April - 14 September 1962). He was born in and raised in Damascus.
Bashir Ali Mohammad Bashir Ali Mohammad (born February 6 1947) is a business leader in Pakistan who is chairman of the Gul Ahmed Group and the Pakistan - Britain Advisory Council. He is the son of the late Haji Ali Mohammad, the memon philanthropist and entrepreneur who introduced Pakistan’s first national branded drink Pakola.
Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari (Arabic: ), (born in 1970 in Yemen), became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. In early 2002, he had been named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he became listed on the FBI's third major "wanted" list, now known as the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list.
Bashir Hameed Bashir Hameed was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. Hameed was convicted of the murder of New York City police officer John Scarangella, and the attempted murder of Scarangella's partner, Officer Richard Rainey.
Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah is a Yemeni, who was captured in Pakistan, on September 11 2002, and transferred to extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.Bashir Nashir Al Marwalah's dossier from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Bashir Qureshi Mr Bashir Khan Qureshi (Sindhi: بشير خان قريشي) S/O Ghulam Murtaza Qureshi born on August 10, 1959 at Motan Pur Mohalla in Rato Dero, District Larkano in Sindh. He completed his primary education up to 5th level at Rato Dero and passed his Matriculation examination from Government High School, Rato Dero in the year 1974.
Bashir Shihab II Bashir Shihab II (born 1767 in Ghazir, died 1850 in Constantinople) was a Lebanese emir who ruled Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century and was as such the second ruler who managed to do this (the first one was Fahkr-al-Din II in the 17th century).
Bashir Tofa Bashir Othma Tofa is a Nigerian politician. A Hausa Muslim who hails from Kano State, Tofa was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria's June 12 1993 presidential election, which was organised by the Military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.
Bashir Zaidi Aseer Bashir Zaidi takhallus Aseer (1934- ), Pakistani poet and civil servant till his retirement in 1994. Born in Delhi, British India (now India), he was associated with the struggle for independence from British rule in his early teens.
Bashkardi language Bashkardi or Bashagerdi is a southwestern Iranian language spoken in the southeast of Iran in the provinces of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan, and Hormozgan. Bashkardi has numerous dialects and these dialects form a transition from Larestani to Balochi.
Bashkir Curly A Bashkir Curly is a breed of horse. Bashkir Curlies (also called American Bashkir Curlies, North American Curly Horses, or simply Curlies) come in all sizes, colors, and body types but all carry a gene for a unique curly coat of fur.
Bashkirs The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. A significant number of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Perm Krai and Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Samara, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia.
Bashour Bashour is an Arabic surname that is unique to Arab Christians mainly Antiochian or Greek Orthodox and more rarely Roman Catholics. The term Bashour means "giver of the best news" or "like the Apostle" in Arabic it stems from the word Bishara which means "the gospel" or "the Word of God".
Basch Basch is a Christian German surname, but the name is also used by some Jewish families because the surname indicates "son of Simon" (Ben Simon), but they have no genetic relationship with the German family.
Basia Trzetrzelewska Basia is the stage name of Barbara TrzetrzelewskaPronounced [] (born September 30, 1954)Some sources incorrectly cite 1959, a Polish singer, songwriter and producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavored jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly in the United States, Japan, England and France.
Basic (behaviour) Believed to have been coined by patrons of the underground music scene in Bristol towards the beginning of the 21st century, basic is a slang term which refers to behaviour that is normally associated with those less cognitively gifted individuals: "I cant believe you missed that shot—you're so basic". In the normal population, basic behaviour is usually evident after a long night/weekend and/or heavy drug consumption.
Basic (dance move) The basic step, basic movement, basic pattern, or simply basic is the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance. It sets the rhythm of the dance; it is the default move to which a dancer returns, when not performing any other moves.
Basic aircraft empty weight Basic aircraft empty weight is the weight of an aircraft without taking into account any baggage, passengers, or usable fuel. Basic empty weight includes all fluids necessary for operation such as engine oil, engine coolant, and unusable fuel.
Basic aromatic ring Basic aromatic rings are aromatic rings in which the lone pair of electrons of a ring-nitrogen atom is not part of the aromatic system and extends in the plane of the ring. This lone pair is responsible for the basicity of these nitrogenous bases, similar to the nitrogen atom in amines.
Basic authentication scheme In the context of an HTTP transaction, the basic authentication scheme is a method designed to allow a web browser, or other client program, to provide credentials – in the form of a user name and password – when making a request. Although the scheme is easily implemented, it relies on the assumption that the connection between the client and server computers is secure and can be trusted.
Basic Airborne Course The Basic Airborne Course is a program involving the common brotherhood of the Red Berets is derived by the experience of parachuting. No commando wears the Red Beret without having previously earned the parachutist wings.
Basic Anxiety Basic Anxiety is a term used by the psychologist Karen Horney to explain the ramifications of poor parenting. Basic anxiety is deep insecurity and fear that have developed in the child because of the way they were treated by their parents.
Basic beryllium acetate Basic beryllium acetate is the chemical compound with the formula Be4O(O2CCH3)6. Although this species has no applications and has been only lightly studied, it adopts a distinctive structure and exhibits remarkable thermal stability.
Basic Data Partition A Basic Data Partition is a partition on a data storage device that is used to hold disc volumes that are to be visible to Windows XP and later operating systems. The Globally Unique Identifier for the Basic Data Partition in the GUID Partition Table scheme is EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7.
Basic ecclesial community The concept of Basic ecclesial community (BEC) has its origin in neo-Marxist liberation theology, but has been appropriated in other locations and strands of the Roman Catholic Church world wide. The work of liberation theologians helped lead to the creation of more than 1,000,000 "base ecclesial communities" ("Comunidades Eclesiales de Base" or CEBs) among poor Catholics in Brazil and in Latin America.
Basic emotions Told in three separate but intertwined short films, Basic Emotions is a story of how four young Manhattan roommates deal with insecurities, create facades, express compassion and struggle to believe in themselves. In a creative approach, three different teams wrote, directed and shot each of these poignant stories, using the same actors and crew.
Basic exchange telecommunications radio service In telecommunication, a basic exchange telecommunications radio service (BETRS) is a commercial service that can extend telephone service to rural areas by replacing the local loop with radio communications. In the BETRS, non-government ultra high frequency (UHF) and very high frequency (VHF) common carrier and the private radio service frequencies are shared.
Basic English Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). The language is based on a simplified version of English, in essence a subset of it.
Basic Evil Basic Evil is the terminology that Psychologist Karen Horney utilized to explain what may cause psychosis or neurosis. Basic evil can also be referred to as poor parenting to the point in which it is or borders child abuse.
Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service The Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service or BETRS is a fixed radio service where a multiplexed, digital radio link is used as the last segment of the local loop to provide wireless telephone service to subscribers in remote areas. BETRS technology was developed in the mid-1980s and allows up to four subscribers to use a single radio channel pair, simultaneously, without interfering with one another.
Basic hypergeometric series In mathematics, the basic hypergeometric series, also sometimes called the hypergeometric q-series, are q-analog generalizations of ordinary hypergeometric series. Two basic series are commonly defined, the unilateral basic hypergeometric series, and the bilateral basic geometric series.
Basic High School Basic High School Institute of Law, Justice, and Public Services; Institute for Health Wellness and Medical Technologies, is a nine-month public high school that is part of the Clark County School District and is located in Henderson, Nevada.
Basic Channel Basic Channel is a minimal techno duo of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus that originated in Berlin, Germany in 1993. The duo released a number of vinyl-only tracks under various aliases, such as Phylyps, q1.
Basic Income Earth Network The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN; until 2004 Basic Income European Network) is a network of academics and activists interested in the idea of a universal guaranteed minimum income, based on citizenship and not on work requirement or charity. It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic throughout the world.
Basic Instinct Basic Instinct (released March 20, 1992) is an American erotic mystery film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. It stars Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn and George Dzundza.
Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS) are language skills needed to interact in social situations, for example, when speaking to a friend on the telephone. These skills are developed by employees in overseas call centres.
Basic knitted fabrics A few types of knitted fabric are so fundamental, that they have been adopted as part of the language of knitting, similar to techniques such as yarn over or decrease. Examples include stockinette stitch, reverse stockinette stitch, garter stitch, seed stitch, faggoting, and tricot.
Basic Law The term Basic Law is used in some places as an alternate to "constitution". A Basic Law is either a codified constitution, or in countries with uncodified constitutions, a law given to have constitution powers and effect.
Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Israel) Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty is a Basic Law, intended to protect main human rights in the State of Israel. The view of most Supreme Court judges, is that the enactment of this law and of Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation began the Constitutional Revolution, due to the fact the Knesset gave these two laws super-legal status, giving the courts the authority to disqualify any law contradicting them.
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) are routines which perform basic linear algebra operations such as vector and matrix multiplication. They were first published in 1979, and are used to build larger packages such as LAPACK.
Basic Math (video game) Basic Math (aka "Fun With Numbers") was a video game cartridge developed by Atari for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari 2600 went on sale in October of 1977.
Basic Military Training Centre The Basic Military Training Centre (abbreviation: BMTC; Chinese: 基本军事训练中心) is a military training facility located on Pulau Tekong in Singapore. Comprising of two schools co-located in one camp, it is the initial Basic Military Training ground for the majority of recruits for the Singapore Armed Forces's national servicemen as well as regulars.
Basic norm Basic norm (German: Grundnorm) is a concept created by Hans Kelsen, a jurist and legal philosopher. Kelsen used this word to denote the basic norm, order, or rule that forms an underlying basis for a legal system.
Basic oxygen furnace A basic oxygen furnace, also known as an LD coverter, is the place within an integrated steel mill where molten iron from the blast furnace is changed into liquid steel. LD is short for Linz-Donawitz, the names of the two towns in Austria, near the Voest-Alpine steelworks where the process was developed.
Basic oxygen steelmaking Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS, BOF, Linz-Donawitz-Verfahren, LD-converter) is a method of steelmaking in which carbon-rich molten iron is made into steel. The process is an improvement over the historically important Bessemer process.
Basic Object System In computer programming, the Basic Object System (BOS) is a C-callable library that implements the notion of object and which uses tcl as its interpreter for interpreted methods (you can have "compiled" methods in C, and mix compiled and interpreted methods in the same object, plus lots more). You can subclass and mix in existing objects using BOS to extend, among other things, the set of tk widgets.
Basic people's court A basic people's court (基层人民法院) is a lowest level court in the Courts of General Jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China. Accroding to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the basic people's courts handle the first instance cases at the local level.
Basic pitch count estimator In baseball statistics, the Basic Pitch Count Estimator is a statistic used to try to estimate the number of pitches thrown by a pitcher where there is no pitch count data available. The formula was first derived by Tom M.
Basic precipitation Basic precipitation occurs when calcium oxide and sodium hydroxide are emitted into the atmosphere, undergo chemical transformations, and are absorbed by water droplets in clouds. The droplets then fall to earth as rain, snow, or sleet.
Basic Pilot Program The Basic Pilot Program is a federally mandated program that involves the verification checks of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the United States Department of Homeland Security databases. Conducted by Homeland Security's SSA and U.
Basic Points Unifying the Theravada and the Mahayana The Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna is an important Buddhist Ecumenical statement created in 1967 during the First Congress of the World Buddhist Sangha Council (WBSC), where its founder Secretary-General, the late Venerable Pandita Pimbure Sorata Thera, requested the Ven. Walpola Rahula to present a concise formula for the unification of all the different buddhist traditions.
Basic radio Basic Radio was ska band, formed in 1985 in Berkeley, CA mainly from members of Urban Noise, and played shows in the San Francisco Bay area with other East Bay bands such as The Uptones, Freaky Executives and Primus. Members of Basic Radio went on to form Operation Ivy, Rancid, Critical Mass , Elephant Men and Tilt.
Basic reproduction number In epidemiology, the basic reproduction number of an infection is the mean number of secondary cases a typical single infected case will cause in a population with no immunity to the disease in the absence of interventions to control the infection. It is often denoted R0 .
Basic Replay Founded by Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus of Rhythm and Sound, Basic Replay is an imprint in the Basic Channel record label family, focusing primarily on reissues of reggae albums and singles. Related to the Wackies reissue campaign, though not restricted to product from one label, Basic Replay releases are packaged to reflect the artwork associated with the originals, with 7" and 12" vinyl singles and LPs typically bearing the artwork, logos ,and fonts found on the out-of-print releases.
Basic Research Basic Research is an herbal supplement and cosmetics manufacturer based in Salt Lake City, Utah that distributes products through a large number of subsidiaries. The company markets their supplements on American late night television commercials and on the Internet.
Basic Rights Oregon Basic Rights Oregon is the largest non-profit gay rights organization in Oregon. Based out of Portland, Oregon - its mission is to "end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Oregon.
Basic Role-Playing Basic Role-Playing, or BRP, is the name of the "generic" form of the fantasy-oriented RuneQuest role-playing game rules. A percentile skill-based system, BRP was used as the basis for most of the games published by Chaosium, including Call of Cthulhu, Elfquest, Stormbringer (aka Elric!
Basic structure The "Basic Structure" doctrine is the judge-made doctrine whereby certain features of the Constitution of India are beyond the limit of the powers of amendment the Parliament of India. The doctrine which was first expresed in Keshavananda Bharati v.
Basic School The Basic School (TBS) is where all newly commissioned United States Marine Corps officers are sent to learn the art and science of being an Officer of Marines. TBS currently lasts six months – the new officers are given extensive classroom and field training on subjects ranging from weapons and tactics to leadership and protocol.
Basic Support for Cooperative Work Basic Support for Cooperative Work (BSCW) is a collaborative workspace software package for collaboration over the Web, developed by the Fraunhofer Society. BSCW supports document upload, event notification, and group management.
Basic taste The basic tastes are the commonly recognized types of taste sensed by humans. Humans receive tastes through sensory organs called taste buds or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue.
Basic Trading Area In the US, a Basic Trading Area is a geographic region defined by the FCC where a Personal Communications Service can operate. It consists of the counties surrounding a city designated as the basic trading center.
Basic Training Honor Graduate Ribbon The Basic Training Honor Graduate Ribbon is a military decoration of the United States Air Force and Coast Guard which recognizes top recruits who graduate at the top of their training classes upon completion of basic training.
Basic4GL Basic4GL is an interpreted, open source version of the BASIC programming language which also features support for 3D computer graphics using OpenGL. While being interpreted, it is also able to compile the users programs on top of the virtual machine to produce executable programs.

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