If is always positive for sufficiently large , then is called an additive basis (of order 2).

Spreading jam on toast, Jeffords said, "It's what we call a need-to-know basis."

Mr. Monti called the agreement "an excellent basis to safeguard Alstom's industrial future."

A basis that is not holonomic is called a non-holonomic or non-coordinate basis.

The above mentioned triad of unit vectors is also called a basis.

In this book, a frame field (coframe field) is called an anholonomic basis of vectors (covectors).

A basis for M consisting of mutually orthogonal unit vectors is called an orthonormal basis.

An orthonormal set which forms a basis is called an orthonormal basis.

'Not on what you'd call a daily basis, no,' said the Dean.

The GLC (at the time Conservative run) established the development on what was called a 'higher rent' basis.