Definition of Elementary

1. Adjective. Easy and not involved or complicated. "Found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"

Exact synonyms: Simple, Uncomplicated, Unproblematic
Similar to: Easy
Derivative terms: Simpleness, Simplicity

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education. "Elementary teachers"
Partainyms: Elementary School

3. Adjective. Of or being the essential or basic part. "An elementary need for love and nurturing"
Exact synonyms: Elemental, Primary
Similar to: Basic
Derivative terms: Element

Definition of Elementary

1. a. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

Definition of Elementary

1. Adjective. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to an elementary school. ¹

3. Adjective. (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle. ¹

4. Adjective. (archaic) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Elementary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elementary

element 105
element 106
element 107
element of a cone
element of a cylinder
elemental
elementalism
elementalities
elementality
elementally
elementals
elementar
elementarily
elementariness
elementarity
elementary (current term)
elementary bodies
elementary education
elementary function
elementary functions
elementary geometry
elementary granule
elementary particle
elementary particle interactions
elementary particles
elementary school
elementary schools
elementary step
elementary symmetric polynomial
elementary symmetric polynomials

Literary usage of Elementary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1904)
"I. Classification in elementary School Curriculum. ... For example, a classification of elementary school studies may show that a course of study contains ..."

2. The Progressive Course in Reading by George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes (1900)
"I. SPOKEN WORDS AND elementary SOUNDS. We express our thoughts by the use of words. In childhood we learned spoken words, and by their use we are now able ..."

3. Compound Locomotives by Arthur Tannatt Woods (1893)
"The elementary theory of steam use in compound locomotives does not differ ... The action of steam in expanding in a slow moving, elementary compound engine ..."

4. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"These bodies constitute what is called Vegetable Tissue, or elementary Organs: ... The chemical basis of the elementary organs has been found to be oxygen, ..."

5. The Theory of Numbers by Robert Daniel Carmichael (1914)
"THE THEORY OF NUMBERS CHAPTER I elementary PROPERTIES OF INTEGERS § i. FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS AND LAWS IN the present chapter we are concerned primarily with ..."

6. Essentials of Geography: A Manual for Teachers by Albert Perry Brigham, Charles T. McFarlane (1921)
"For many years geography has held an honored place in our elementary schools. In most of these schools some part of each school day for a period of several ..."

7. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-motors by William Henry Paul Creighton (1909)
"The difference between an essentially elementary and a compound quantity. 2. elementary quantities can only equal elementary quantities. ..."

8. Classified Guide to Technical and Commercial Books: A Subject-list of the by Edgar Greenwood (1904)
"AGRICULTURE, elementary Course, by WT Lawrence. Post 8vo. pp. Illus. ... elementary LESSONS IN THE Science of Agricultural Practice, by H. Tanner. Fcp. 8vo. ..."

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