element /elˈə-mənt/

1. A first principle
2. One of the essential parts of anything
3. An ingredient
4. A small amount
5. The proper medium, habitat or sphere of any thing or being
6. 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)
7. (in pl) the rudiments of learning
8. (usu in pl) the bread and wine used in the Eucharist
9. A substance that cannot be resolved by chemical means into simpler substances (chem)
10. A member or unit of a structure
11. A resistance wire in an electric heater, cooker, etc
12. An electrode
13. A determining fact or condition in a problem
14. The sky (archaic)
15. A celestial sphere
16. (in pl) the weather or the powers of nature

elemental /-mentˈl/ adjective

1. Of or concerned with the elements
2. Belonging to, produced by or inhabiting the elements

1. An elemental spirit
2. A nature spirit
3. A disembodied spirit

elementˈalism noun

1. The worship of elemental spirits
2. The theory which resolves the divinities of antiquity into the elemental powers

elementˈally adverb

elementarˈily adverb

elementˈariness noun

elementˈary adjective

1. Of a single element
2. Primary or fundamental
3. Rudimentary
4. Simple
5. Uncompounded
6. Of or relating to the elements
7. 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

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