elementary
Meanings
adj
- 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.
- Relating to a subatomic particle.
- Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.
- 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).
- Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
- Making no use of complex analysis.
- 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.
noun
- Ellipsis of elementary school.
- A supernatural being associated with the elements.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
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.
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