FromMiddle Englishelementare, fromLatinelementārius(“elementary”), fromelementum(“one of the fourelements ofantiquity;fundamentals”) +-ārius(adjective-forming suffix).[1][2] Cognate withFrenchélémentaire. Bysurface analysis,element +-ary.
elementary (comparativemoreelementary,superlativemostelementary)
- Relating to thebasic,essential orfundamental part of something.
- Verysimple.
- Relating to anelementary school.
- (sciences)Fundamental: serving as abuilding block for more complicatedstructures orprocesses.
- (physics) Relating to asubatomicparticle.
- (chemistry, of areaction) Involving only a singlereaction step andtransition state.
- (mathematics, of asquarematrix) Which performs arow orcolumnoperation on another matrix when the two are multiplied; see
Elementary matrix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Such matrices are called "elementary" because they generate thegeneral linear group). - (mathematics, of asymmetricpolynomial) Arising fromVieta's formulas; seeElementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
2012 March,Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 2, page146:The physics ofelementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
- (mathematics, of anargument orproof)Straightforward, employing onlybasic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particulardomain,object, etc.).
- (number theory, of an argument or proof, mostlyhistorical outside the phrase "Elementary number theory") Making no use ofcomplex analysis.
- (archaic)Sublunary; notcelestial; belonging to thesublunary sphere, to which the four classicalelements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something
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- Galician:elemental (gl)
- Georgian:ელემენტარული(elemenṭaruli)
- German:elementar (de)
- Greek:στοιχειώδης (el)(stoicheiódis)
- Italian:elementare (it)
- Japanese:基本的な (ja)(きほんてきな, kihonteki na)
- Korean:기본적 (ko)(gibonjeok)
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- Northern Kurdish:seretayî (ku)
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- Bokmål:elementær,grunnleggende (no)
- Nynorsk:elementær,grunnleggande,grunnleggjande
- Plautdietsch:eefach
- Polish:podstawowy (pl) m,elementarny (pl) m
- Portuguese:elementar (pt)
- Romanian:elementar (ro) m orn,fundamental (ro) m orn
- Russian:элемента́рный (ru)(elementárnyj)
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relating to an elementary school
relating to a subatomic particle
elementary (pluralelementaries)
- Anelementary school.
At LakesideElementary I learned to appreciate the forest.
- (mythology, mysticism) A supernaturalbeing associated with theelements.
1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page45:The demon (orelementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness.
2003, H P Blavatsky,The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, volume 1:[…] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than anelementary again[…]
2007, Gerald Massey,The Natural Genesis, page332:But, in Africa these became definite in their Egyptian Types, by means of which we can follow their development from theelementaries of Chaos and Space into Celestial Intelligencers[…]
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