title: Basis
text: 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
  
  See also
  
  Base (disambiguation)
  Basic (disambiguation)
  Basis of Union (disambiguation)
  Basis set (disambiguation)