elementary — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

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

2. Very simple.

3. Relating to an elementary school.

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

   Esempi

   It is clear, therefore, that idealism contradicts the most elementary scientific knowledge and is contrary to all progress, whether social or intellectual.

   Altri esempi (1)

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

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

   Uso

   • of a reaction

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).

   Uso

   • of a square matrix

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

   Uso

   • of a symmetric polynomial

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

   Uso

   • of an argument or proof

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

    Uso

    • of an argument or proof

11. 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.

    Uso

    • arcaico

Sostantivo

1. A supernatural being associated with the elements.

   Uso

   • numerabile

   Esempi

   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 […]

   Altri esempi (1)

   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 […]

Aggettivo

1. easy and not involved or complicated

   Sinonimi

   simpleuncomplicatedunproblematic

   Esempi

   an elementary problem in statistics

   elementary, my dear Watson

   Altri esempi (2)

   a simple game

   found an uncomplicated solution to the problem

2. of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education

   Esempi

   the elementary grades

   elementary teachers

3. of or being the essential or basic part

   Sinonimi

   elementalprimarybasal

   Esempi

   an elementary need for love and nurturing

   a basal reader