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Definition of Fundamental
1. Adjective. Serving as an essential component. "Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
Similar to: Important, Of Import
Derivative terms: Center, Center
2. Noun. Any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business. "Fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure"
3. Adjective. Being or involving basic facts or principles. "Underlying principles"
4. Noun. The lowest tone of a harmonic series.
5. Adjective. Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something. "Profound social changes"
Definition of Fundamental
1. a. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
2. n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
Definition of Fundamental
1. Noun. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fundamental
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Medical Definition of Fundamental
1. Pertaining to a base or foundation. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)