first rudiment

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Noun

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first rudiment - the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"ABC, ABCs, ABC's, first principle, rudiment, alphabetbasic principle, fundamental principle, fundamentals, basics, bedrock - principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one