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Home Dictionary Name: basebase pair
a unit of double stranded DNA or RNA consisting of two complementary bases on opposing strands of the double stranded polynucleotide bound together by hydrogen bonds and other non covalent chemical forces The bases comprising the base pairs are adenine thymine cytidine and guanine In normal DNA the base adenine on one strand of DNA pairs with thymine on the opposite strand and cytosine on one strand pairs with guanine on the opposite strand The term base pair usually includes the sugar ribose or deoxyribose and the phosphate bound to each base to form a nucleotide unit One base pair is sometimes used as a unit of length or size for DNA and in this usage is abbreviated bp as a 100 bp fragment of DNA A length of 1000 base pairs is a kilobase pair or kbp...
Base fee
Base fee. A species of inheritable freehold estate which forms part of the class of estates known as conditional freeholds of inheritance. In a more special sense, a base fee was until 1926 a fee simple determinable on the failure of issue of an original donee of the estate in tail. It was limited by the failure of the heirs of the body of that donee to take, and upon that failure the persons next entitled in remainder became entitled to the remainder in tail or in fee simple, as the case might be. As where a tenant-in-tail, with remainder to a stranger, conveys the fee-simple to another in the property entailed upon him, such other takes a qualified fee by legal construction, determinable on the death of the tenant-in-tail and failure of the issue under the entail. Another example of such an estate is when a tenant-in-tail, not being himself entitled to the immediate remainder or reversion in fee, conveys without the consent of the protectors of the settlement; he then transfers a bas...
use-based application
use-based application There are four filing bases on which a trademark application may be based. One filing basis is use of the mark in commerce (the other three are filing based on an intent-to-use the mark in commerce, filing based on a pending foreign application, and filing based on a foreign registration). Applicants who file based on use in commerce must be using the mark they wish to register with the goods or services in the application prior to or at the time of filing the application. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
Base-estate
Base-estate, lands held by base-tenants, who performed villeinous services to their lords; but there is a difference between a base estate and villenage, for to hold in pure villenage is to do all that the lord commands; and if a copy holder have but a base estate, he, not holding by the performance of every commandment of his lord, cannot be said to holding villenage, Kitch. 41....
Based
Having a base or having as a base supported as broad based...
Non-alcoholic beverage base
Non-alcoholic beverage base, the non-alcoholic beverage bases in India cannot be treated or understood as new 'nutritive material absorbed or taken into the body of an organism which serves for the purpose of growth, work or repair and for the maintenance of the vital process' and an average Indian will not treat non-alcoholic beverage bases as of products or food preparations, Collector of Central Excise v. Parle Exports (P) Ltd., AIR 1989 SC 644 (652): (1989) 1 SCC 345: (1988) Supp 3 SCR 933....
rate base
rate base : the total fair value of public utility property that is used in rendering services and that comprises the investment on which a fair rate of return is based in setting utility rates ...
risk based pricing
risk based pricing Fee structure used by creditors based on risks of granting credit to a borrower with a poor credit history. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
tax base
tax base 1 : a sum (as the total assessed valuation of property in a county) used as the basis of taxation 2 : the source of tax revenue for a governmental body [change the tax base of a school district to reduce the property tax burden] ...
off base
located outside a military base as off base housing...
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