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De - Pt| English Dictionary: 'foundation' | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for 'foundation' | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Foundation \Foun*da"tion\, n. [F. fondation, L. fundatio. See {Found} to establish.] 1. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect. 2. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis. Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. --Is. xxviii. 16. The foundation of a free common wealth. --Motley. 3. (Arch.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see {Base course} (a), under {Base}, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment. He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. --Macaulay. 5. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity. Against the canon laws of our foundation. --Milton. {Foundation course}. See {Base course}, under {Base}, n. {Foundation muslin}, an open-worked gummed fabric used for stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc. {Foundation school}, in England, an endowed school. {To be on a foundation}, to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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foundation The axiom of foundation states that the membership relation is well founded, i.e. that any non-empty collection Y of sets has a member y which is disjoint from Y. This rules out sets which contain themselves (directly or indirectly). | |
