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/ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi/
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/ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi/
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/ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/
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/ˌɛləˈmɛntɹi/
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(ˌ)ɛlɪ̈ˈmɛnt(ə)ɹɪ
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ˌɛlɪ̈ˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi
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Adjective
Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
Very simple.
Relating to an elementary school.
Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
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It is clear, therefore, that idealism contradicts the most elementary scientific knowledge and is contrary to all progress, whether social or intellectual.
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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.
Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. Relating to a subatomic particle.
Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.
Usage- of a reaction
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).
Usage- of a square matrix
Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Usage- of a symmetric polynomial
Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
Usage- of an argument or proof
Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.). Making no use of complex analysis.
Usage- of an argument or proof
Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
Usage- Archaic
Noun
A supernatural being associated with the elements.
Usage- Countable
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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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But, in Africa these became definite in their Egyptian Types, by means of which we can follow their development from the elementaries of Chaos and Space into Celestial Intelligencers […]
Adjective
easy and not involved or complicated
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an elementary problem in statistics
elementary, my dear Watson
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a simple game
found an uncomplicated solution to the problem
of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
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the elementary grades
elementary teachers
of or being the essential or basic part
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an elementary need for love and nurturing
a basal reader