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/ˌɛləmˈɛntri/ /ˌɛləmˈɛntərri/ /ˌɛləmˈɛntʃri/ Listen

adjective

Elementary adj.

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.

Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the last attack had spluttered out, sent a careful report to his colonel before the ambulance men took him to their field hospital. In this report he gives details of some curious movements among the enemy. One contingent, apparently some foreign legion, showing traces of elementary discipline and evidently not numbering in its ranks many Boers of the old school, advanced boldly across ground that afforded them little cover, and there began to "front form" in fairly good order. They were well within range of Lee-Enfield rifles, and a ...

— Four Months Besieged - The Story of Ladysmith • H. H. S. Pearse

... occurrence gives no clue as to the mode of origin of new species. Polymorphic species are the expression of the result of previous variability acting on a large scale; but they now simply consist of more or less numerous elementary species, which, as far as we know, do not at present exhibit a larger degree of variability than any other more uniform species. The vernal whitlow-grass (Draba verna) and the wild pansy are the best known examples; both have spread over ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... a simple application of the elementary principles of the laws of mechanics, chapter ...

— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini

... to the Earl of Surrey, therefore, were that at the earliest opportunity he should call an assembly of so many of the Irish chiefs as he could induce to come to him, and to discourse to them upon the elementary principles of ...

— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude

... to a moral training, without which, the mere communication of knowledge, whether sacred or profane, is often a curse rather than a blessing. So soon as they had attained a sufficient knowledge of the language, the missionaries composed elementary books, and for those who were farther advanced they translated a history of the sufferings of Jesus, which was gratefully received by those who could read and eagerly listened to by those who ...

— The Moravians in Labrador • Anonymous

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