elementary

Meanings

Plural: elementaries

Adjective Satellite

• easy and not involved or complicated
  • "an elementary problem in statistics"
  • "elementary, my dear Watson"
• of or being the essential or basic part
  • "an elementary need for love and nurturing"

Adjective

• of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
  • "the elementary grades"
  • "elementary teachers"

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.
• Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
• Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.
• 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).
• Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
• Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
• Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
• 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

• An elementary school.
• A supernatural being associated with the elements.

Synonyms

elemental, primary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic

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