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Discover Ludwig"design basis" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the fundamental principles or criteria upon which something is designed. Example: The architect's design basis for the new building was to incorporate sustainable materials and energy-efficient features.
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It provides a design basis for the antenna designer working on wireless applications.
The department has rewritten its design basis threat several times.
"We are not operating, and cannot operate, under the pre-September 11 Design Basis Threat.
Another likely area of restructuring is to review the distinction that the commission makes between "design basis" and "beyond design basis" accidents.
Post-Fukushima these safety features have been augmented and strengthened to address any beyond design basis incidents".
The details of this design basis threat are classified, but the new definition specifies a larger and more capable group of attackers.
The details of the design basis threat against which the plants are tested are classified, but the threat is known to be a commando-type attack.
These mock terror exercises are played according to elaborate rules, called the "design basis threat," that in the view of skeptics favor the defense.
American-designed reactors, including the ones at Fukushima, were built to withstand something called a "design basis" accident, usually the worst case that engineers thought was plausible.
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Those are known as design-basis accidents.
The commission calls that type of incident, which is often hard to imagine happening, a "design-basis accident".
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