title: Base
text: # Base
  
  Base or BASE may refer to:
  
  ## Brands and enterprises
  
  * Base (mobile telephony provider), 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></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 $b^n$
  * 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
  * Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering, part of Beaverton School District 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
  
  ## Social science
  
  * Base (politics), a group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates
  * Base (social class), a lower social class
  * Base and superstructure (Marxism), parts of society in Marxist theory
  
  ## 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, 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, in heraldry, the lower part of the shield
  * 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
  