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elementary

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adj/ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi//ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi//ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/
  1. 1

    Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

  2. 2

    Very simple.

  3. 3

    Relating to an elementary school.

  4. 4

    Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.

    • It is clear, therefore, that idealism contradicts the most elementary scientific knowledge and is contrary to all progress, whether social or intellectual.
    • The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
  5. 5

    Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Relating to a subatomic particle.

  6. 6

    Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.

  7. 7

    Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Which performs a row or column operation on another matrix when the two are multiplied; see Elementary matrix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Such matrices are called "elementary" because they generate the general linear group).

  8. 8

    Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  9. 9

    Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).

  10. 10

    Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).; Making no use of complex analysis.

noun/ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi//ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi//ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/
  1. 1

    Ellipsis of elementary school.abbreviationalt-ofcountable

    • At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.
  2. 2

    A supernatural being associated with the elements.countable

    • The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness.
    • […] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […]

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