elementary
/ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi/
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
- comparative
- more elementary
- superlative
- most elementary
Meanings
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Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something
It's elementary, my dear Tom.
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Very simple
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Relating to an elementary school
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Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes
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Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Relating to a subatomic particlerare
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Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Involving only a single reaction step and transition staterare
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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)rare
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Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.; Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipediarare
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Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.)rare
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Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).; Making no use of complex analysisrare