Usually means: DNA's fundamental unit of pairing.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word base pair:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. base-pair, base pair: Merriam-Webster
  2. base pair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. base pair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. base pair: Vocabulary.com
  5. base-pair, base pair: Wordnik
  6. base pair: Wiktionary
  7. base pair: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. base pair: Dictionary.com
  9. Base-pair, Base pair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. base pair: Rhymezone
  11. base pair: FreeDictionary.org
  12. base pair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. base pair: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. base pair: Legal dictionary
  2. base pair: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Base-pair, base pair: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. base pair: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Base pair: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Base-pair, base pair: Medical dictionary
  8. Base pair: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

(Note: See base_pairing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (base pair)

noun:  (biology) In molecular biology, two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected with hydrogen bonds.

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