elementary
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1.1
- adjective
- /ˌɛlɪˈmɛnˌtɛri/
:
básico
- The teacher covered some elementary concepts in the science class to help the students understand the basics.
- elementary particles
- elementary school
- elementary education
The one elementary truth, the one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans is simply this.
- The one elementary truth, the one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans is simply this.
- This is why panpsychism, which assigns consciousness to everything, including elementary particles, is either bluntly wrong.
- But some years ago, a Muscovite called Boris Mikhailovich Russakov discovered a new kind of elementary particle.
- This means that if elementary particles were wormholes or black holes, they'd be much smaller than the quantum uncertainty that we measure.
- It's arguably the world's first elementary relocating loader.
- We know what we can build them out of lots of little elementary small transformations.
- So living close with people in in holes and mastering some some elementary elements of surveillance, reconnaissance.
- So it always doesn't make sense to start looking for life in some other elementary form that doesn't make any sense for the way that we understand science.
- Every electron seems to reuse the same subprogram all the time as it is interacting with other elementary particles.
- But if I wanted to describe, I don't know, the sort of interactions of matter and light, you know, I have elementary particles be fundamental.
Examples
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We're fulfilling an elementary internationalist duty when we're helping the people of Angola.
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The dysfunctional state failed to adequately provide even the most elementary services.
Academic text (2012) -
Just a few elementary ideas on the subject, Major.
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We're going to look at some elementary representations.
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I broke an elementary rule of my profession.
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In addition to his administrative training, his academic background was in elementary education.
Academic text (1996) -
An elementary knowledge of the railway acts would tell you I'm within my rights.
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Anyhow, Plato had very elementary ideas about love.
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Moulton had offered him the chance to teach an elementary astronomy course, and he took it.
Academic text (1990) -
Reese appeared bemused, as if listening to an elementary civics lesson that had nothing to do with him.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Forming the simple and most necessary part of something
∞
2.5
Being most important or basic
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1.9
Needed for something to work or succeed
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3.5
Very important and necessary for something to work
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5.1
Basic knowledge, skill, or thing at an early stage
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5.2
Relating to the most basic part of something
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7.0
Relating to the basic and most important part of something
Antonyms
Compounds
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1.0
A school for children between five and eleven that teaches reading, writing, and basic math
- Specialized
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6.5
A very small part of matter that you cannot break into smaller pieces, like an electron or quark
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1.7
The first part of school that teaches reading, writing and math to young children
Study of basic shapes like triangles and circles and simple facts about lines and angles
How Basic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elementary comes from element (from Latin elementum) meaning 'basic part' or 'base'. So when we call something elementary we mean it is a basic or fundamental part of a subject.