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BASIC

31 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. BASIC (noun)
  2. 1) basic (adjective)
  3. 2) basic (noun)
  4. basic airman (noun)
  5. basic anxiety (noun)
  6. basic crew (noun)
  7. basic crop (noun)
  8. basic dress (noun)
  9. Basic English (noun)
  10. basic fuchsin (noun)
  11. basic iron (noun)
  12. basic lime (noun)
  13. basic-lined (adjective)
  14. basic nitrogen (noun)
  15. basic pay (noun)
  16. basic pilot training (noun)
  17. basic process (noun)
  18. basic proposition (noun)
  19. basic rate (noun)
  20. basic science (noun)
  21. basic size (noun)
  22. basic slag (noun)
  23. basic steel (noun)
  24. basic training (noun)
  25. basic wage (noun)
  26. basic weight (noun)
  27. basic yield (noun)
  28. airman basic (noun)
  29. blue basic lead sulfate (noun)
  30. Methine Basic Orange G (noun)

BA·SIC

noun \ˈbā-sik\

Definition of BASIC

: a simplified high-level language for programming a computer
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Examples of BASIC

  1. The program is written in BASIC.

Origin of BASIC

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
First Known Use: 1964

Other Computer-Related Terms

adware, flash, kludge, phishing, recursive, router

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