BASIC

See also: basic, Basic, and bàsic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪsɪk/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪk
• Homophone: basic

Etymology 1

Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, but designed to spell out basic (i.e. simplistic). First use appears c. 1964 in the BASIC Instruction Manual.

Alternative forms

• Basic

Proper noun

BASIC (plural BASICs)

1. Any of a family of third-generation programming languages.

   Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.

Hyponyms

• BASICA
• BBC BASIC
• GW-BASIC
• street BASIC
• Turbo Basic
• Visual Basic

Translations

computer language

Bulgarian: бейсик (bejsik) Esperanto: BASIC Finnish: BASIC Marathi: बेसिक f (besik) Persian: بیسیک (fa) (beysik) Polish: BASIC (pl) m

See also

• C
• C++
• Cobol
• COBOL
• C plus plus
• FORTRAN
• Fortran

Etymology 2

Proper noun

BASIC

1. (attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

BASIC

1. Initialism of British American Security Information Council.

Further reading

• BASIC on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• BASIC countries on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• SABIC

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English BASIC.

Noun

BASIC m (invariable)

1. (computing) BASIC

Anagrams

• basci, bisca