Elementary

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or fundamental part.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject.
  • adjective. Of or relating to an elementary school or elementary education.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of an element or elements; primary; simple; uncompounded; incomplex: as, an elementary substance.
  • Initial; rudimental; containing, teaching, or discussing first principles, rules, or rudiments: as, an elementary treatise or disquisition; elementary education; elementary schools.
  • Treating of elements; collecting, digesting, or explaining principles: as, an elementary writer.
  • Of the nature of an infinitesimal element or part.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded.
  • adjective. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory.
  • adjective. Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  • adjective. Relating to an elementary school.
  • adjective. Relating to a subatomic particle.
  • adjective. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or being the essential or basic part
  • adjective. easy and not involved or complicated
  • adjective. of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
  • Word Usage
    "The phrase is not stronger than that with which the “Grammar of Science” challenged the fight: —“Anything more hopelessly illogical than the statements with regard to Force and Matter current in elementary textbooks of science, it is difficult to imagine, ” opened Mr. Pearson, and the responsible author of the “elementary textbook, ” as he went on to explain, was Lord Kelvin himself."
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