Week 61: Base, is open!
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Hey guys, due to circumstances, doing thing a tiny bit different this week. Posting the NEXT week's word a little early, and will do the roundup a little bit late. Hope it's not too confusing.
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For week 61, the word is base. So so many SGA references in the definitions....
base
1. the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
2. a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis: the base of needed reforms.
3. the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint.
4. that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure.
5. Baseball
a. any of the four corners of the diamond, especially first, second, or third base. Compare home plate.
b. a square canvas sack containing sawdust or some other light material, for marking first, second, or third base.
6. Military
a. a fortified or more or less protected area or place from which the operations of an army or an air force proceed.
b. a supply installation for a large military force.
7. Geometry
the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand.
8. Mathematics
a. the number that serves as a starting point for a logarithmic or other numerical system.
b. a collection of subsets of a topological space having the property that every open set in the given topology can be written as the union of sets of the collection.
c. a collection of neighborhoods of a point such that every neighborhood of the point contains one from the collection.
d. a collection of sets of a given filter such that every set in the filter is contained in some set in the collection.
Hey guys, due to circumstances, doing thing a tiny bit different this week. Posting the NEXT week's word a little early, and will do the roundup a little bit late. Hope it's not too confusing.
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For week 61, the word is base. So so many SGA references in the definitions....
base
1. the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
2. a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis: the base of needed reforms.
3. the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint.
4. that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure.
5. Baseball
a. any of the four corners of the diamond, especially first, second, or third base. Compare home plate.
b. a square canvas sack containing sawdust or some other light material, for marking first, second, or third base.
6. Military
a. a fortified or more or less protected area or place from which the operations of an army or an air force proceed.
b. a supply installation for a large military force.
7. Geometry
the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand.
8. Mathematics
a. the number that serves as a starting point for a logarithmic or other numerical system.
b. a collection of subsets of a topological space having the property that every open set in the given topology can be written as the union of sets of the collection.
c. a collection of neighborhoods of a point such that every neighborhood of the point contains one from the collection.
d. a collection of sets of a given filter such that every set in the filter is contained in some set in the collection.
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