Meaning

11 senses
  1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

    elementar

    элемента́рныйelementárnyj

    елемента́рнийelementárnyj

    of or being the essential or basic part

  2. Very simple.

  3. Relating to an elementary school.

    нача́льныйnačálʹnyj

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

  4. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.

  5. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.

    Relating to a subatomic particle.

    элемента́рныйelementárnyj

  6. Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.

  7. Which performs a row or column operation on another matrix when the two are multiplied; see Elementary matrix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Such matrices are called "elementary" because they generate the general linear group).

  8. Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  9. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).

  10. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).

    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.

Examples

137 sentences
  1. I miss my elementary school teachers.

    ruЯ скучаю по своим учителям начальной школы.

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  2. I've known Tom since elementary school.

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  3. Tom is an elementary school teacher.

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  4. Tom is an elementary school student.

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  5. Tom is still in elementary school.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something:
Русский
By meaning 2
relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something:
relating to an elementary school:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something:

Origin

From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“o

From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary.

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Forms

more elementary, most elementary
Comparativemore elementary Lesson
Superlativemost elementary Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

22 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • elementary school
  • in elementary school
  • an elementary school
  • an an elementary
  • were in elementary
  • to elementary school
  • went to elementary

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
elementary — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto