Word Meaning

Meaning of basics

- Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
- Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
- Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
- Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

Crossword clue for basics

- ABC is kind of fundamental
- Begins as simple initiation ceremony? It’s elementary!
- Bog-standard
- Cab is devastatingly plain and unadorned
- Central plain
- Fundamental
- Minimum (wage)
- No-frills
- On the bottom
- Simple
- Straightforward
- Underlying
- Essentials
- Fundamentals
- Rudiments