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Bashrush Gas Field
Bashrush Gas Field is a natural gas discovery offshore Egypt's Nile Delta, announced by operator Eni with partners bp and Total in July 2020, testing up to 32 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Bashshar ibn Burd
Bashshar ibn Burd (بشار بن برد) was a blind Persian-descent poet of Basra, called the last of the ancients and first of the moderns, who died in 784.
Bashtak
Bashtak (بشتك), full name Amir Sayf al-Din Bashtak al-Nasiri, was a Mamluk amir of Egypt who served Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad and built a palace in Cairo.
Bashy
Bashy, performance name of Ashley Thomas (born 1985), is a British grime and UK rap artist from London known for "Black Boys", the 2009 album Catch Me If You Can, acting roles, and the 2024 comeback album Being Poor Is Expensive.
Basia
Basia (Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska, born 1954, Jaworzno, Poland) is a Polish jazz-pop singer, ex-Matt Bianco vocalist, whose Time and Tide and London Warsaw New York went US platinum; distinct from Basia Bulat.
BASIC
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of programming languages designed at Dartmouth College in 1963–64 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to let non-specialists program computers.
Basic (2026 film)
Basic (2026) is an American romantic comedy directed and written by Chelsea Devantez, her feature debut, starring Ashley Park, Leighton Meester, and Taylor John Smith. Expanded from Devantez's 2020 short, it premiered at SXSW on March 16, 2026, and holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Basic (film)
Basic is a 2003 American-German-British military mystery thriller directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, and Samuel L. Jackson, set in Panama.
Basic access authentication
Basic access authentication, or Basic auth, is an HTTP authentication scheme, defined by RFC 7617, that sends a Base64-encoded user-id and password in the Authorization header.
Basic Encoding Rules
The Basic Encoding Rules (BER), defined in ITU-T Recommendation X.690, are the original ASN.1 rules for encoding data for transmission, used by LDAP, SNMP, and X.509 certificates.
Basic English
Basic English, also called Ogden's Basic, is a simplified English of 850 words and few grammar rules devised by C. K. Ogden with I. A. Richards around 1930 as an international auxiliary language and English-teaching system.
Basic fighter maneuvers
Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are the individual offensive, defensive, and neutral maneuvers a fighter pilot uses in visual-range air combat to gain positional advantage over an opponent.
Basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors
Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors are dimeric eukaryotic regulators with a ~60-amino-acid basic helix-loop-helix domain that binds E-box CANNTG motifs; over 100 human members regulate neurogenesis, myogenesis, hematopoiesis, and cancer-related programs.
Basic Hydrogen Strategy
Japan's Basic Hydrogen Strategy (Suiso Kihon Senryaku), adopted in December 2017, was the world's first national hydrogen strategy, targeting 3 million tons of hydrogen per year by 2030.
Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct (1992) is Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller starring Michael Douglas as detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as suspect Catherine Tramell, written by Joe Eszterhas, released March 20, 1992, grossing $353 million worldwide amid protests and NC-17 censorship battles.
Basic Instinct 2
Basic Instinct 2 (2006), also Risk Addiction, is Michael Caton-Jones's erotic thriller sequel starring Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell and David Morrissey; a $70 million film that grossed $35 million, scored 26 on Metacritic and 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, and won four Razzies.
Basic insulation level
The basic insulation level (BIL), formally the basic lightning impulse insulation level, is the peak lightning impulse voltage that power equipment insulation must withstand without breakdown.
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (GG), the constitution of Germany; drafted 1948-1949 by the 65-member Parliamentary Council, promulgated 23 May 1949, extended to all of Germany on 3 October 1990; includes the eternity clause of Article 79(3).
Basic life support
Basic life support (BLS): lay and professional emergency care for cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and choking, built on recognition, calling for help, high-quality CPR, and AED use, per 2025 AHA and ERC guidelines.
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) is a specification of standard routines for vector and matrix operations in three levels, widely used by software such as LAPACK.
Basic metabolic panel
Basic metabolic panel (BMP), also called chem 7 or chemistry panel: an eight-part blood test measuring glucose, calcium, sodium, potassium, chloride, CO2, BUN, and creatinine to assess kidney function, electrolytes, and metabolism.
Basic National Policy Outline
The Basic National Policy Outline (基本国策要綱) was a Japanese cabinet policy statement of 26 July 1940 calling for a new order in Greater East Asia.
Basic needs
Basic needs are the minimum requirements for a decent human existence, such as food, shelter, and health care; the ILO made the basic needs approach a development strategy in 1976.
Basic oxygen steelmaking
Basic oxygen steelmaking, also called the basic oxygen process or LD process, converts molten iron into steel by blowing oxygen through it, and dominates world production.
Basic reproduction number
Basic reproduction number (R0, R-naught): epidemiologic metric for expected secondary infections per case in a fully susceptible, intervention-free population; threshold R0 > 1 sustains outbreaks; distinct from time-varying effective Rt.
Basic research
Basic research, also known as fundamental science or pure research, is experimental or theoretical work undertaken to acquire new knowledge without any particular application in view.
Basic Research in Cardiology
Basic Research in Cardiology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of experimental cardiology, published by Springer and the official journal of the German Cardiac Society since 1973.
Basic RiderCourse
The Basic RiderCourse (BRC) is the entry-level learn-to-ride motorcycle curriculum of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, released in 2001. In most states its completion waives the riding test.
Basic Safety Message
The Basic Safety Message is a standardized V2V message defined in SAE J2735 that vehicles broadcast 10 times per second to describe position, speed, and braking.
Basic structure doctrine
Basic structure doctrine: Indian judicial principle from Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala (24 April 1973, 7-6, 13 judges) barring Parliament from altering the Constitution's essential features via Article 368 amendments, developed through Indira Nehru Gandhi, Minerva Mills, Waman Rao, NJAC.