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Basic or BASIC may refer to:

Science and technology

• BASIC, a computer programming language
• Basic (chemistry), having the properties of a base
• Basic access authentication, in HTTP

Entertainment

• Basic (2003 film), an American thriller film
• Basic (2026 film), an American comedy film
• Basic, one of the languages in Star Wars

Music

• Basic (Glen Campbell album), 1978
• Basic (Robert Quine and Fred Maher album), 1984
• B.A.S.I.C. (Alpinestars album), 2000
• Basic (Brown Eyed Girls album), 2015
• B.A.S.I.C. (The Basics album), 2019

Places

• Basic, Mississippi, a community in the US
• BASIC countries, Brazil, South Africa, India and China in climate change negotiations

Organizations

• BASIC Bank Limited, government owned bank in Bangladesh
• Basic Books, an American publisher

Other uses

• Basic (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes manufactured by the Altria Group (Philip Morris Company)
• Basic (dance move), the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance
• Basic (slang), a pejorative term in American English
• British American Security Information Council, a think tank based in London
• Bašić, South Slavic surname

See also

• Basic English, an English-based controlled language with a limited vocabulary
• Visual Basic (classic), a computer programming language
  • Visual Basic .NET, a computer programming language based on the .NET Framework
• Basics (disambiguation)
• Base (disambiguation)
• Basis (disambiguation)
• Basic mandate, an aspect of the electoral system