base·ment /ˈbesmənt/
地下室,地窖;建築物的基部
Base·ment n. Arch. The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. (See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
Basement membrane Anat., a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.
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basement
n 1: the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below
ground level; often used for storage [syn: cellar]
2: the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance
architecture