ELEMENTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elements mean? 

• ELEMENTS (noun)
  The noun ELEMENTS has 1 sense:

1. violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements)

  Familiarity information: ELEMENTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEMENTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

they felt the full fury of the elements

Hypernyms ("elements" is a kind of...):

atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

 Context examples 

It also combines with other elements to form powders or crystals.

(Mercury, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)

Their results suggest a depletion of oxygen relative to other elements and provide chemical clues into how these exoplanets may have formed without substantial accretion of ice.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

AREs are cis-acting regulatory enhancer elements found in the 5' flanking region of many phase II detoxification enzymes.

(Broccoli sprout extract, NCI Thesaurus)

This nanowire network, which contains a large number of intricately interacting synaptic elements, forms a “neuromorphic network.”

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By analysing subtle variations in the light from the star, they found traces of chemical elements in amounts that scientists had never before observed at a white dwarf.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

An indication that a data element corresponding to a microbiology specimen has been derived from one or more data elements.

(Microbiology Specimen Derived Flag, NCI Thesaurus)

During sleep, participants were exposed to fast flows of pure sounds, either randomly organized or structured in such a way that the auditory stream could be statistically grouped into sets of 3 elements.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These chemical elements are requisites for molecular structure, and they determine both the reactivity and selectivity of nanoparticles.

(Nanoparticle Chemical Characterization, NCI Thesaurus)

TFF response elements in TFF gene promoters allow increases in TFF expression through auto-induction and cross-induction of other TFFs, in addition to mucin expression and possibly tumor suppression.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Milk protein-based energy drink is a flavored liquid that consists of milk protein, rapeseed and sunflower oils, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace-elements, providing 1.5kcal and 10 mg of protein per ml.

(Milk Protein-Based Energy Drink, NCI Thesaurus)