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basement
noun
- the foundation or lower part of a wall or structure
- the lowest story of a building, below the main floor and wholly or partly below the surface of the ground
- Geol. the oldest layer of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the crust of the earth, covered by layers of more recent, usually sedimentary rocksin full basement complex
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