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elementary

adjectifnomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi//
  • Royaume-Uni//ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi//
  • États-Unis//ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi//
  • États-Unis//ˌɛləˈmɛntɹi//

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

adjectif

  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.

  11. 11

    archaïqueSublunary; 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.

Étymologie

From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary.

nom

  1. 1

    A supernatural being associated with the elements.

    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 […]

    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 […]

  2. 2

    Variante de elementary schoolfamilierEllipsis of elementary school.

    At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.

    He was my dentist. My mom took me to him back in elementary and junior high.

Formes

pluriel
elementaries
comparatif
more elementary
superlatif
most elementary
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