Base

A place where the line of communication orginates, where magazines of stores for the forces in the field are situated and maintained under direct military management and control, and where the busine of supplying these forces is located and organised under the -military authorities; in fortification, the exterior side of the polygon; m ordnance, the protuberant rear' portion of a gun between the knob of the-cascabel and: the.base-ring; also the element on which the movement is regulated.