What does ELEMENTARY mean?
Definitions for ELEMENTARY
ˌɛl əˈmɛn tə ri, -triel·e·men·ta·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematicadjective
easy and not involved or complicated
"an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
elementaryadjective
of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
"the elementary grades"; "elementary teachers"
elementary, elemental, primaryadjective
of or being the essential or basic part
"an elementary need for love and nurturing"
Wiktionary
elementaryadjective
Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
elementaryadjective
Relating to an elementary school.
elementaryadjective
Relating to a subatomic particle.
elementaryadjective
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Elementaryadjective
Uncompounded; having only one principle or constituent part.
Etymology: from elementary.
All rain water contains in it a copious sediment of terrestrial matter, and is not a simple elementary water. John Ray, on the Creat.
The elementary salts of animals are not the same as they appear by distillation. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
ChatGPT
elementary
Elementary refers to the most basic or foundational level of something. It can pertain to knowledge, skills, principles, or education that form part of the fundamental or primary aspect of a subject, field, or domain. It is also used to describe something that is simple, straightforward, or uncomplicated.
Webster Dictionary
Elementaryadjective
having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance
Elementaryadjective
pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise
Elementaryadjective
pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire
Etymology: [L. elementarius: cf. F. lmentaire.]
Wikidata
ELEMENTARY
In computational complexity theory, the complexity class ELEMENTARY of elementary recursive functions is the union of the classes in the exponential hierarchy. The name was coined by László Kalmár, in the context of recursive functions and undecidability; most problems in it are far from elementary. Some natural recursive problems lie outside ELEMENTARY, and are thus NONELEMENTARY. Most notably, there are primitive recursive problems which are not in ELEMENTARY. We know Whereas ELEMENTARY contains bounded applications of exponentiation, PR allows more general hyper operators which are not contained in ELEMENTARY.
Editors Contribution
elementary
A fundamental element.
Elementary, primary, rudimentary refer to what is basic and fundamental.
Submitted by MaryC on February 25, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ELEMENTARY in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ELEMENTARY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of ELEMENTARY in a Sentence
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
Public Safety Director Steven McCraw:
In public testimony before the Senate Committee to Protect Texas, I stated that the law enforcement response to the active shooter attack at Robb Elementary School was an abject failure.
How do you handle the unspeakable, by putting it in a little box, hiding it deep, pretending all is well. Doing that since age 8, since elementary school, I became exceedingly perfect.
Nobody anywhere in the country wants to have a course called ‘critical race theory for elementary school,’ this stuff will seep into the curriculum. It will seep in when the teachers start teaching that this country has always been racist, that racism is the way things get done.
I wish there were a larger national conversation about how important elementary school teachers specifically are.
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- ابتدائيArabic
- нача́лен, елемента́ренBulgarian
- elementar-, elementær, folkeskole-Danish
- elementarGerman
- στοιχειώδηςGreek
- perustava, perus-Finnish
- élémentaireFrench
- sìmplidhScottish Gaelic
- elementareItalian
- سهرهتاییKurdish
- elementær, grunnleggendeNorwegian
- elementærNorwegian Nynorsk
- enkeltNorwegian
- elementarny, podstawowyPolish
- elementar, fundamentalPortuguese
- elementar, fundamental, elementarăRomanian
- элемента́рный, нача́льныйRussian
- 初级Chinese
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