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BASING POINT

Specialty Definition: BASING POINT

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Agriculture

A geographical site used to establish fixed rates and/or prices for federal milk marketing orders. Generally, rates or prices increase according to the distance from the basing point. The FAIR Act of 1996 authorizes USDA to consider the use of multiple basing points for pricing milk under federal milk orders. (references)

Business

Basing point = point taken, for the Purposes of pricing, to be the point of despatch of goods, even if the factory in which they are produced is in fact sited elsewhere. Source: European Union. (references)

Economics

A location which is used to set the selling price of goods and the freight rates to all points. A price is set at a given location chosen as the ex-factory basing point with freight to the place of delivery added to create a delivered price. Then like goods, wherever they may be sold from, are charged freight to their destination as if they were shipped from the same location (the basing point). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BASING POINT

Specialty definitions using "BASING POINT": Multiple basing points. (references)

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Modern Translation: BASING POINT

Language Translations for "BASING POINT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

lieu de parité. (various references)

   

German

  

Basispunkt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asingbay ointpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BASING POINT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-i-n-n-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: botanising.

-2 letters: baptising, bignonias, obtaining, paintings.

-3 letters: antisnob, bignonia, boasting, boatings, opiating, painting, patining, pigboats, pintanos, poignant, pointing, positing, sainting, sopiting, staining.

-4 letters: agonist, anoints, antings, atoning, bagnios, baiting, basting, bastion, biasing, biotins, boating, bonitas, gabions, gitanos, nations, noising, nonpast, obtains, onanist, opining, paining, panting, pasting, pianist, pigboat, pinangs, pinions, pintano, poising, postbag, posting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BASING POINT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 53 49 4E 47      50 4F 49 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#73 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0053 0049 004E 0047      0050 004F 0049 004E 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36355343484125049434854

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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