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Adjektiivi

1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
2. Very simple.
3. Relating to an elementary school.
4. (sciences) Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
5. (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
6. (chemistry, of a reaction) Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.
7. (mathematics, of a square matrix) Which performs a row or column operation on another matrix when the two are multiplied; see (Such matrices are called "elementary" because they generate the general linear group).
8. (mathematics, of a symmetric polynomial) Arising from Vieta's formulas; see
9. (mathematics, of an argument or proof) Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
10. (number theory, of an argument or proof, mostly historical outside the phrase "Elementary number theory") Making no use of complex analysis.
11. (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.

Substantiivi

1. (countable and uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of elementary school.
2. (countable, mythology, mysticism) A supernatural being associated with the elements.