Base
Meanings and phrases
n.
- a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries; al-Qaeda; Qaeda; al-Qa'ida; al-Qaida
adj.
- serving as or forming a base; basal
- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); baseborn; humble; lowly
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles; immoral
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; - Edmund Burke; - Shakespeare; mean; meanspirited
- illegitimate; baseborn
- debased; not genuine
n.
- installation from which a military force initiates operations; base of operations
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring; bag
- lowest support of a structure; foundation; fundament; foot; groundwork; substructure; understructure
- the bottom or lowest part
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- a support or foundation; pedestal; stand
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; basis; foundation; fundament; groundwork; cornerstone
- a lower limit; floor
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; alkali
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; radix
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end; home
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the most important or necessary part of something; basis
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; infrastructure
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA); nucleotide
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; root; root word; stem; theme; radical
v.
- use as a basis for; found on; establish; ground; found
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes; free-base
n.
- a base for military aircraft; air station
- To each of the regiments correspond an air base.
- Opened in 1964 as a naval air base of Indonesia.
- It was home to Smirnykh air base during the Cold War.
n.
- a large base of operations for an army
- Mary's dad relents, letting her join Bob at his army base.
- The returnees were initially based at the former army base used by the South African Soldiers.
- Maintaining control of the central army base Setermoen was vital for the Norwegian mobilization.
n.
- (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely; safety
- Wigginton flared a ball into center that dropped for a base hit.
- Costas's call:A base hit to right!
- Jonathan Hee recorded their only extra base hit, a 5th-inning double.
n.
- a metal that is common and not considered precious
- The metal part is normally made of a base metal alloy (termed bonding alloy).
- The base metal minerals galena, sphalerite and minor chalcopyrite increase with depth.
- Welding creates a non-uniform expansion and contraction of the weld metal and the base metal.
n.
- installation from which a military force initiates operations; base
- Joe's secret base of operations.
- Suchet quickly converted Valencia into an important base of operations.
- Calling himself "Commodore", he now uses this island as his base of operations.
n.
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; walk; pass
- Viola broke her own home run and posted a new base on balls record.
- A batter who draws a base on balls is commonly said to have been "walked" by the pitcher.
- A batter against whom four balls are recorded is awarded a base on balls or walk, a free advance to first base.
n.
- one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA
- In particular, the length of each base pair is the same.
- A Hoogsteen base pair is a rare variation of base-pairing.
- Non toxigenic strains contain a 127 base pair fragment replacing the PaLoc.
n.
- the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks
n.
- a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base); runner
n.
- the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate); first
- the initial stage in accomplishing something
- He also played some first base for the A's in 1975.
- During 2010, he served as interim first base coach.
- He played first base and all three outfield positions.
n.
- (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; headquarters; central office; main office; home office
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; home plate; home; plate
- Sum Woolworth maintained his home base in Scranton.
- Its home base is Mashud Wisnusaputra Stadium.
- Ajax Cape Town trains at their home base located in Parow.
n.
- the content of a particular field of knowledge; knowledge domain; domain
- The knowledge base represents facts about the world.
- The knowledge base represents facts and rules.
- The knowledge base was released under the Apache License.
n.
- base of operations for a naval fleet
adv.
- on first or second or third base; aboard
n.
- a children's game; two teams capture opposing players by tagging them and taking them to their own base
n.
- a military base for rocket missiles
n.
- the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield; second
- Feller then tried to pick off Masi at second base.
- He played for 19 seasons, mostly at second base.
- Leonard, playing second base, committed nine of them.
n.
- a subset of data in a database that are used in a specific application
n.
- collective value of taxable assets
- Their operations generate 47% of the city's tax base.
- The operations budget is funded by a tax base.
- The shift of population and jobs eroded Detroit's tax base.
n.
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; third
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate); third
- After the season, he was moved back to third base.
- Bogaerts lined out to third base to end the inning.
- Bell then balked, moving Gehrig to third base.
v.
- establish communication with someone; get in touch; connect
E.g.
- It was a military base of the Hyderabad state army.
- The school is located in the St. Lucía military base.
- Bayonne was then an important military base.
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- There is also a naval base in Charleston, South Carolina.
- The naval base at Trincomalee was reported to be submerged.
- Officials also discovered a bomb near a major U.S. naval base.
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- 's primarily teenage fan base, the announcement of Wham!
- Day's loyal fan base have given mostly favorable reviews.
- He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a large fan base.
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- The columella has one or two teeth near the base.
- Most of the leaves grow near the base of the plant.
- Forewings with arched costa from near the base.
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- The TDS' main base is Touliki Base, in Nuku'alofa.
- Its main base was Vancouver International Airport.
- Its main base was Sarajevo International Airport.
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- The chromosome contains 3,308,274 base pairs.
- This region is composed of a 114 base pairs.
- This primary transcript consists of 1320 DNA base pairs.
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- GroupLogic gained access to Acronis’ customer base.
- These abandonments were due to a loss of a customer base.
- In 2002 Fenway acquired the molding equipment and customer base of Premier Tile.
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- John Rae (explorer) had a base camp here in 1851.
- A new base camp was established in the Gangu Forest.
- The site is significant as a base camp property type.
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- The stem is long by thick, enlarging towards the base.
- The stipe bears blunt spines and scales towards the base.
- The stipe measures long by wide, and thickens towards the base.
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- His secondary training base is in Canberra, Australia.
- Tutton's primary training base was in Doetinchem, Netherlands.
- His training base is Vigo.
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- Prem's plan was successful and allowed him to consolidate his power base.
- The new government quickly suppressed the opposition, and secured their power base.
- Stalin used the office of General Secretary to create a strong power base for himself.
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- A new base camp was established in the Gangu Forest.
- The new base was officially commissioned on July 8, 1940.
- FC Zestafoni management is building a new base for the club.
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- A fire hose is wrapped around the base.
- These monograms form a continuous pattern around the base of the egg.
- The inner walls have slumped, forming a ledge around the base of the slope.
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- The base model was dropped after this model year.
- "The Marine Band" is the base model of the line.
- They chose the 3.0 liter Ferrari 308 GTB as their base model.
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- Because of this, his main support base has been the rural poor.
- When Karmal took power, he began expanding the support base of the PDPA.
- The was adapted to be a support base for special operations helicopters.
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- For a school district with a market value/personal income aid ratio (MV/PI AR) greater than 0.4000, its index equals the base index multiplied by the sum of .75 and its MV/PI AR for the current year.
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- The mouse was tracked in three dimensions by a base station.
- The base station, as described by the author, could serve several customers.
- In 2006, a satellite base station was built by Kongsberg Satellite Services.
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- During 2010, he served as interim first base coach.
- In 2007, he was moved to third base coach.
- In 2014, Brock was the first base coach for the Houston Astros.
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- Ghana's industrial base is relatively advanced.
- Today, the town has a more diversified industrial base.
- It accounts for almost all the municipality's industrial base.
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- Agriculture was the economic base of these people.
- Tourism forms the economic base of Chidambaram.
- His acts as king were to strengthen his kingdom's economic base.
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- He was the National League stolen base champion in 2013.
- However, such a tactic was not recorded as a stolen base.
- 1931 saw a further narrowing of the criteria for awarding a stolen base.
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- It was home to Smirnykh air base during the Cold War.
- The port was also used as naval base during his campaigns in Asia.
- In 1955, Alston played Don Hoak at third base during the exhibition season.
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- Within three years, AOL's user base grew to 10 million people.
- The Windchill user base ranges from individuals to large corporations.
- India has an Internet user base of about 460 million as of December 2017.
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- It has set-up more than 5000 base stations.
- ATM cells are transmitted from base stations to mobile terminals.
- The company invested $25 Million in 30 CDMA base stations during 2007
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- He did not have any extra base hits and did not drive in a run.
- Doubles, triples, and home runs are also called extra base hits.
- He led the league in home runs, extra base hits (66), and total bases (247).
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- Ajax Cape Town trains at their home base located in Parow.
- The statue is placed on a marble base located just inside the library.
- Botha, refers to Cassinga as "a large SWAPO base located 260 km north of the border.
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- The party has a strong base in Suphan Buri Province.
- The party has a strong base in Buriram Province.
- Caesium hydroxide is a very strong base, and will rapidly corrode glass.
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- Drone strike against an al Shabaab base near Taabta village.
- He proceeded to Iximche, and made a base near there in Tecpan on 25 July 1524.
- During the Second World War, the United States Marine Corps established a base near the foot of the valley.
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- He did not have any extra base hits and did not drive in a run.
- Doubles, triples, and home runs are also called extra base hits.
- Jonathan Hee recorded their only extra base hit, a 5th-inning double.
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- The gameplay of "Minerva's Den" is similar to the base game.
- Several reviews called the story stronger than that of the base game.
- The "base game" is required.
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- A professor typically earns a base salary and a range of benefits.
- His base salary was $1.3 million.
- According to Rapoport, Carter signed a one-year deal with a base salary of $1.75m.
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- A civilian seaplane base is located at the top of the Gouin Dam.
- This seaplane base is located near the Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport.
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- It used to contain naval facilities, including a submarine base.
- Prior to 1991, the Soviet Union operated a large secret submarine base at Hara.
- The US Navy operated a submarine base on Ordnance Island from 1942 through 1945.
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- The party lost its base of support, only capturing 3% of the popular vote.
- For this brief period, Conservatives replaced the left as Velasco's base of support.
- The PG has not yet run independently in an election, so its base of support is hard to pin-point.
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- Manila, in the Philippines, would be its forward operating base come wartime.
- A FOB also improves reaction time to local areas as opposed to having all troops on the main operating base.
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- Version 2 was redesigned with a new source code base.
- Earliest snapshots of the code base exist from June 30, 2016.
- He’s written an extensive number of articles on programming with the Cocoa code base.
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- Jackson established Fort Strother as a supply base.
- Nuclear, coal, oil, gas and some hydro plants can supply base load.
- Congo-Brazzaville furthermore acted as a supply base for the Angola mission.
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- It has a square base, topped with a dome.
- Only part of the square base survives.
- It is dated 1680 and consists of an octagonal post on a square base with a square cap.
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- Males will often have a yellow stripe that runs along the base of the dorsal fin.
- The Royal Gorge Route Railroad runs under the bridge along the base of Royal Gorge.
- East of the Hayward Fault along the base of the hills, elevation increases more rapidly.
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- After it was stolen in 1964, only its granite base remained.
- The bronze statue is 12 feet tall and rests on a granite base 13 feet tall.
- It is made of a steel frame with a granite base, a flat roof, and a facade of brick in Flemish bond.
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- The IIvx's base price was slashed by over a third.
- The U.S. base price of the 1997 ES 300 was $30,395.
- The coupé had a base price of US$1.7 million.
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- Weymouth Corporation provided the stone base.
- It is built of brick, rising from a monumental stone base.
- The rope was then fastened by a pin to the structure's stone base.
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- Zerodha has a client base of 9 lakh customers.
- OSSICS owns one of the largest client base in Kerala in the free software sector.
- The Frescobaldi family began producing Tuscan wine in 1308 and soon developed a notable client base.
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- The damage caused forced an immediate return to base.
- On his return to base Dorehill was forced to make a crash-landing.
- 5 Group RAF failed when the Master Bomber had to return to base and his deputies were shot down en route.
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- During the World War I, an air force base was established.
- Filming for the movie began in January 2012 at a disused air force base in London.
- During World War II, the town had a Luftwaffe air force base and military barracks.
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- The base area consists of a parking lot and a short strip of lodges.
- In the summer of 1959 the base area was relocated some down the hill.
- It was in the 1st Air Division heavy bomber base area and more than fifty miles west of any other fighter airfield.
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- He did not have any extra base hits and did not drive in a run.
- Doubles, triples, and home runs are also called extra base hits.
- He led the league in home runs, extra base hits (66), and total bases (247).
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- In 2007, he was moved to third base coach.
- In December 16, 2011, he was not renewed as third base coach for 2012.
- and announced that Gene Lamont was moved from third base coach to bench coach.
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- The east dams were high and sat on a concrete base.
- The entire work rests on a square concrete base.
- It consists of a black metal pyramid on a concrete base.
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- The data base has several sections.
- A file-builder is included to allow players to insert new words in the data base.
- The resulting data base is very popular among social scientists for quantitative analyses of social and economic change.
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- The shooting circle is from the base line.
- Koenig beat out a bunt down the third base line for a single, bringing Ruth up.
- The last base line to be measured with tape happened near Salmon, Idaho in 1958.
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- During the World War I, an air force base was established.
- Filming for the movie began in January 2012 at a disused air force base in London.
- During World War II, the town had a Luftwaffe air force base and military barracks.
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- Dynamo Kyiv became the base club of the national team.
- Kupang became the base of the Dutch struggle against the Portuguese.
- The 2.0L turbo engine became the base engine for the SE model for 1987.
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- At the base of each waterfall are natural pools.
- The diameter at the base of each tipi is , and they are in height.
- There is a small pot-shaped gland at the base of each pair of leaflets.
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- For example, the conjugate base of acetic acid is acetate.
- In solution there exists an equilibrium between the acid and its conjugate base.
- It is the sodium salt of the conjugate base of the 1,3-dithiole-2-thione-4,5-dithiol.
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- In 1941, during the Second World War, the Royal Navy established a base ("Port T").
- During the Second World War, the United States Marine Corps established a base near the foot of the valley.
- No.1 or "Kompani Linge"), established a base in Lerwick (pronounced "Lerrick"); SIS later moved to Peterhead.
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- His political base has been in Rocha Department.
- The Party has a political base of issues concerning the capital Stockholm, such as traffic.
- Tuomey was born circa 1819 in the city's fourteenth ward where he established his political base.
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- During 2010, he served as interim first base coach.
- In 2014, Brock was the first base coach for the Houston Astros.
- This appeal contributed to the Dodgers hiring him as first base coach in 1938.
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- The second is the base unit of time in SI units.
- The furlong is also a base unit of the humorous FFF system of units.
- The unit is derives from the Japanese "tsubo", the base unit of the Japanese area.
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- Damage was extensive enough that "U-437" was assisted back to base by .
- Duffill was able to get his airplane back to base, but the plane was a write off.
- Compared to the 50-day journey up the mountain, it took them just two days to make it back to base camp.
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- Ninety school districts received the base 2% increase.
- One hundred fifty school districts received the base 2% increase in 2010-11.
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- "Mystère" would have a permanent base in Las Vegas.
- This was to be the squadron's permanent base for the duration of their first Korean deployment.
- IU South Bend Elkhart Center was completed in 2007, providing a permanent base and presence in Elkhart, Indiana.
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- Today, Hermosa is a predominantly Hispanic blue collar community, with a sizable manufacturing base.
- As one of the most populous cities of the 1950s, Buffalo's economy revolved almost entirely on its manufacturing base.
- The Report warned that Britain needed to expand its declining manufacturing base to combat the fall in revenue from North Sea oil.
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- Glo Mobile’s subscriber base in Nigeria stood at over 45 million by December 2018.
- 53% of its budget comes from the subscriber base; advertising accounts for only 12.9%.
- Warid was Pakistan’s fourth largest GSM mobile service provider and fifth largest mobile service in terms of subscriber base of over 12.9 million.
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- It is unusually wide as a result of the American base commander insisting that four army tanks must be able to be driven side by side along the road.
- During the period September – December 1966, he also concurrently served as commanding general of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, before new base commander, Major General Joseph O.
- He is bedeviled by Colfax AAF's "old-school" base commander, Colonel Pyser, who ultimately saddles him with a complement of injured Italian POWs because his is the only secure ward in the hospital.
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- Buddhist texts from the 2nd to 5th centuries mention the transmutation of base metals to gold.
- Such impurities are introduced from the base metals and alloying elements, but are removed during processing.
- represents the weight of "fine metal" therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities.
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- The virus will blow up the base when the datacube is connected to the core.
- In Games 1 and 3, the losing team had the tying and winning runs on base when the game ended.
- On September 24, 1903, Anderson tried to steal second base when the base was already occupied.
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- For example, units for length and time are normally chosen as base units.
- Under the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units, this sets 1 eV equal to J.
- In the CGS base units, it is equal to one gram centimetre-squared per second-squared (g⋅cm/s).
E.g.
- For a school district with a market value/personal income aid ratio (MV/PI AR) greater than 0.4000, its index equals the base index multiplied by the sum of .75 and its MV/PI AR for the current year.
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- For a school district with a market value/personal income aid ratio (MV/PI AR) greater than 0.4000, its index equals the base index multiplied by the sum of .75 and its MV/PI AR for the current year.
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- He left the field and Scipio's men gradually returned to base.
- The flight never returned to base.
- "V189" returned to base undamaged.
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- There are five, strong spiral ridges above the base.
- In addition to both of these methods, Anthozoa can split horizontally just above the base.
- The club is built on a fan-shaped plan, with three cantilevered concrete seating areas rising above the base.
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- This is called complementary base pairing.
- There was another near-discovery of the base pairing rules in early 1952.
- In Watson-Crick base pairing, it forms three hydrogen bonds with guanine.
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- After that runner was caught stealing, no other batter reached base.
- Seven of the first nine Giants batters reached base, and six of them scored.
- Soon after play resumed in the same inning, two Cubs reached base on an error and a walk.
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- ConAC also reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization system in June 1949.
- The 42d was inactivated when ConAC reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization system in June 1949.
- The 560th was inactivated when ConAC reorganized its reserve units under the wing base organization system in June 1949.
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- It is currently used as a seasonal scientific research base.
- Yelcho Base Yelcho Base is a Chilean Antarctic research base.
- It was then used as a seasonally scientific research base from 1987 to 1992.
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- They can be from a base level to a level 4.
- The E89 Z4 was offered with the base level sDrive or optional M Sport trim.
- Upholstery selections were tricot for base level "L" and velour for the uplevel "LS".
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- One of the former base structures is now a museum.
- 's former base until his innocence can be proven.
- Many former base areas were opened to allow visitors a chance to see, what Loring was all about.
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- japanning) or otherwise alter the surface properties of the base material.
- Normally a hole is drilled into the base material and a fastener is placed inside.
- Boride layer depths can range from 0.001 - 0.015 inch depending on base material selection and treatment.
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- In particular, the length of each base pair is the same.
- The petals were pinkish with a dark red spot at each base.
- In MLB, four umpires are used for each game, one near each base.
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- It could also have been used as a forward base for American bombers to strike targets in the Soviet Union.
- The Security Forces used the Rufunsa airstrip in eastern Zambia as a forward base against the guerrillas' bases.
- Soldier is becoming more distant, and we learn he was transferred to a forward base and was seriously injured in the war, and his friends died.
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- The courses have industrial orientation on a broad base.
- As the channel has a broad base of reporters, exclusive videos are shown pertaining to each news item.
- Each tooth resembles a fan, with a broad base rising to a small, sharp central point flanked by 3 or more smaller cusps on both sides.
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- The brick base of the pagoda is shaped as a sumeru pedestal.
- It is built on a square brick base, each side measuring meters long and meters high.
- Subsequent reheating in the kiln fuses the slip into a glazed surface integral with the brick base.
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- Chery's main production base in the mainland of China is located in Anhui.
- 2000 saw another, larger Chinese production base investment this time of 25%.
- An initial production base will be built in Changshu, a county-level city close to Shanghai.