a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

02adjective

pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

“a basic fact”

“the basic ingredients”

03adjective

reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

“a basic story line”

“a canonical syllable pattern”

04adjective

serving as a base or starting point

“a basic course in Russian”

“basic training for raw recruits”

2 more meanings

05adjective

of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

06noun

(usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

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