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| noun (plural: basics)
- A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
- Rice is a for many Asian villagers.
- An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
- Arithmetic is a for the study of mathematics.
Translations: adjective
- necessary, essential for life or some process.
- Flour is a ingredient of bread.
- elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
- The Hotel Sparta's accommodation is purely .
- (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; antonym of acidic
Translations: - Italian: basico
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Etymology: base + -ic
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