ELEMENTARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elementary mean? 

• ELEMENTARY (adjective)
  The adjective ELEMENTARY has 3 senses:

1. easy and not involved or complicated

2. of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education

3. of or being the essential or basic part

  Familiarity information: ELEMENTARY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEMENTARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Easy and not involved or complicated

Synonyms:

elementary; simple; uncomplicated; unproblematic

Context example:

found an uncomplicated solution to the problem

Similar:

easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

elementary teachers

Pertainym:

elementary school (a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or being the essential or basic part

Synonyms:

basal; elemental; elementary; primary

Context example:

a basal reader

Similar:

basic (pertaining to or constituting a base or basis)

Derivation:

element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)

 Context examples 

Elementary charge has a value of 1.602 176 487x10E-19 C in the SI system.

(Elementary Charge, NCI Thesaurus)

Stable elementary particles having the smallest known negative charge, present in all elements; also called negatrons.

(Electron, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This species survives outside of its host as an elementary body.

(Chlamydophila psittaci, NCI Thesaurus)

A physical quantity that is constant in all circumstances throughout the universe (e.g., speed of light c, elementary charge, the gravitational constant G).

(Fundamental Physical Constant, NCI Thesaurus)

It has long been called the mass-to-charge ratio although m is not the ionic mass nor is z a multiple or the elementary (electronic) charge e.

(Mass-to-Charge Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

An elementary particle with 0 charge and a mass about equal to that of a proton.

(Neutron, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the amount of substance that contains as many elementary units as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12.

(Mole, NCI Thesaurus)

But to win the battles, the player needs to apply math skills of elementary school.

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)

In China, however, the practice is embedded into daily life, continuing through elementary and middle school, even into adulthood.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Autophagy is essentially how the brain breaks down cellular waste to elementary pieces, which are then recycled and used to construct and renovate brain cells.

(New Mechanisms Found of Cell Death in Neurodegenerative Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)