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Baseball/softball (olympedia_sports SBL)
Baseball/softball (Olympedia code SBL) is one Olympic sport with men's baseball and women's softball disciplines under the WBSC; medal sports 1992-2008 and Tokyo 2020, returning at LA 2028.
Baseball5
Baseball5 is the WBSC's five-inning, five-on-five urban variant of baseball and softball, played with a rubber ball and no bat, glove, or pitcher; Cuba holds both World Cup titles, and it debuts at Dakar 2026.
Baseband
Baseband, also called a baseband signal, is the frequency range of a signal in its original, unmodulated form, centered near zero hertz, as in human voice at roughly 20 Hz to 20 kHz.
Basecamp
Basecamp is a web-based project management and team communication application developed by 37signals, launched in February 2004 as a deliberately simple alternative to feature-heavy suites.
Based
Based is a slang term meaning agreeable or cool, especially for controversial or unpopular opinions; it began as a drug-culture insult and was reclaimed as praise by the rapper Lil B around 2010.
Based on a True Story (film)
Based on a True Story (D'après une histoire vraie), 2017 psychological thriller by Roman Polanski, screenplay with Olivier Assayas, adapted from Delphine de Vigan's Prix Renaudot novel; stars Emmanuelle Seigner and Eva Green; premiered at Cannes 2017.
Based on a True Story (TV series)
Based on a True Story, also called BOATS, is a Peacock dark comedy thriller created by Craig Rosenberg, starring Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, and Tom Bateman as a couple making a true crime podcast with serial killer Matt, the Westside Ripper; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2023 to 2024, cancelled April 2025.
Based on a True Story (Will Smith album)
Based on a True Story, Will Smith's fifth studio album (28 March 2025, SLANG), his first since 2005's Lost and Found; first 'season' of a planned trilogy, 14 tracks, guests include DJ Jazzy Jeff and Big Sean; Metacritic 41, missed the Billboard 200.
Basefarm Holding
Basefarm Holding was a Norwegian managed cloud infrastructure and big data services provider founded in 2000, acquired by France's Orange in 2018 for €350 million, with the brand retired in 2022.
Baseflow
Baseflow (also written base flow) is the portion of streamflow supplied by groundwater discharge and other slowly released stored water, sustaining rivers between storms and through dry seasons.
Baseflow recession
Baseflow recession is the decline of streamflow during dry periods, when groundwater and subsurface storage sustain the river, and it is used to estimate low flows and recharge.
Baseflow separation
Baseflow separation is a hydrological technique that splits a streamflow hydrograph into sustained baseflow and rapid quickflow, summarized by the baseflow index, the ratio of baseflow volume to total streamflow volume.
BASEketball
BASEketball is a 1998 Universal sports comedy directed by David Zucker, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone as Milwaukee friends whose invented basketball-baseball hybrid becomes a professional league; it grossed $7.0 million and holds 40% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Basel
Basel: Swiss city on the Rhine at the French-German border triangle, capital of canton Basel-Stadt. Known for Switzerland's oldest university (1460), the 1356 earthquake, life-sciences industry (Novartis, Roche), Art Basel, and about 210,500 cantonal residents in 2025.
Basel Accords
The Basel Accords are international banking regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, setting minimum capital, leverage, and liquidity requirements for banks that take effect through national law.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is a panel of banking supervisors and central bankers hosted by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Basel Convention
The Basel Convention (1989, in force 1992) is the main global treaty controlling transboundary movements of hazardous and other wastes, using prior informed consent; 191 parties, with Ban, plastic waste (2021), and e-waste (2025) amendments.
Basel I
Basel I is the 1988 Basel Capital Accord, an international agreement requiring internationally active banks to hold capital equal to at least 8 percent of risk-weighted assets.
Basel II
Basel II, the second Basel Accord, is a 2004 framework setting minimum bank capital requirements around three pillars: minimum capital, supervisory review, and market discipline.
Basel III
Basel III is a set of international bank regulation standards developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision after the 2007–09 financial crisis, covering capital, leverage, and liquidity.
Basel problem
The Basel problem, named for the Bernoulli family of Basel, asks for the exact sum of the reciprocals of the squares of the positive integers.
BASEL-PMI study
BASEL-PMI (NCT02573532) is a prospective multicenter study from University Hospital Basel screening high-risk noncardiac surgery patients for perioperative myocardial injury, defining PMI by absolute troponin rise and reporting etiology-specific mortality.
Baseline (typography)
In typography, a baseline is the invisible line on which most letters of text sit, guiding glyph design and the alignment of different fonts and font sizes.
Baseline correction
Baseline correction is a signal-processing step in analytical chemistry that estimates and subtracts background drift underlying signals such as chromatograms and spectra, so peak areas reflect the analyte.
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
The Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) is a global network of stations measuring surface solar and infrared radiation with high accuracy, operating since 1992 under the World Climate Research Programme.
Baselios Cleemis
Baselios Cleemis, born Isaac Thottunkal in 1959, is an Indian cardinal who has led the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church since 2007 and became its first cardinal in 2012.
Baselios Marthoma Mathews III
Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, also known as Mathews Mar Severios, is the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, Supreme Head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, enthroned in 2021.
Baselios Yeldo
Baselios Yeldo, also spelled Yeldho and known as Yeldo Mar Baselios, was a 17th-century West Syrian Maphrian who reached Malankara, India, in 1685 and is venerated as a saint.
Basella
Basella is a small genus of succulent twining vines in the Basellaceae family, best known for Basella alba, Malabar spinach, a leafy vegetable of tropical Asia.
Basella alba
Basella alba (Malabar spinach, Indian spinach, Ceylon spinach) is a succulent climbing vine of Basellaceae grown in the tropics for edible mucilaginous leaves; its fleshy purplish-black perianth encloses the fruit and yields a red food dye.