When working over a collection of fields, the base field is the intersection of the fields in the collection, i.e., the field contained in all other fields.
Base Field
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Terr, David. "Base Field." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BaseField.html