Basis

Basis may refer to:

Finance and accounting

 * Adjusted basis, the net cost of an asset after adjusting for various tax-related items
 * Basis point, 0.01%, often used in the context of interest rates
 * Basis trading, a trading strategy consisting of the purchase of a security and the sale of a similar security
 * Basis of futures, the value differential between a future and the spot price
 * Basis (options), the value differential between a call option and a put option
 * Basis swap, an interest rate swap
 * Cost basis, in income tax law, the original cost of property adjusted for factors such as depreciation
 * Tax basis, cost of an asset

and technology

 * Basis function
 * Basis (linear algebra)
 * Dual basis
 * Orthonormal basis
 * Schauder basis
 * Basis (universal algebra)
 * Basis of a matroid
 * Generating set of an ideal:
 * Gröbner basis
 * Hilbert's basis theorem
 * Generating set of a group
 * Base (topology)
 * Change of basis
 * Greedoid
 * Normal basis
 * Polynomial basis
 * Radial basis function
 * Standard basis
 * Transcendence basis of a field extension
 * Basis database

Chemistry

 * Basis (crystal structure), the positions of the atoms inside the unit cell
 * Basis set (chemistry)
 * Dry basis, an expression of a calculation in which the presence of water is ignored

Organizations

 * Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services
 * Basis Educational Group
 * Basis Schools, a group of schools in Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Texas
 * Basis Technology Corp., a text analytics company

People

 * Dimitris Basis, Greek singer
 * Liron Basis (born 1974), Israeli footballer