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element /elˈə-mənt/ noun- A first principle
- One of the essential parts of anything
- An ingredient
- A small amount
- The proper medium, habitat or sphere of any thing or being
- Any one of the four substances, fire, air, earth and water, supposed by the ancients to be the foundation of everything (in China a fifth, wood, was included)
- (in pl) the rudiments of learning
- (usu in pl) the bread and wine used in the Eucharist
- A substance that cannot be resolved by chemical means into simpler substances (chem)
- A member or unit of a structure
- A resistance wire in an electric heater, cooker, etc
- An electrode
- A determining fact or condition in a problem
- The sky (archaic)
- A celestial sphere
- (in pl) the weather or the powers of nature
ORIGIN: L elementum, pl elementa, first principle(s) elemental /-mentˈl/ adjective - Of or concerned with the elements
- Belonging to, produced by or inhabiting the elements
noun- An elemental spirit
- A nature spirit
- A disembodied spirit
elementˈalism noun - The worship of elemental spirits
- The theory which resolves the divinities of antiquity into the elemental powers
elementˈally adverb elementarˈily adverb elementˈariness noun elementˈary adjective - Of a single element
- Primary or fundamental
- Rudimentary
- Simple
- Uncompounded
- Of or relating to the elements
- Dealing with first principles
elemental spirits plural noun Beings in medieval belief who presided over the four elements, living in and ruling them elementary particle noun Any of three subatomic particles, electron, quark and gauge boson, so called because they are held to be indivisible elementary school noun A school in which the first years of formal education are given, obsolete in the UK since 1944, but still current in N America elements of an orbit (mathematics) The data mathematically necessary to determine it in one's element In the surroundings most natural or pleasing to one |