Element

Noun

 * 1) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
 * 2)   Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
 * 3) One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air
 * 4) Something small.
 * an element of doubt
 * 1)  Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
 * 2) A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
 * be in one's own element
 * 1)  A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
 * 2)  One of the objects in a set.
 * 3) A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
 * You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches.
 * 1) A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
 * The element in this electric kettle can heat the water in under a minute.
 * 1)  One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.

Synonyms

 * chemical element
 * member

Derived terms

 * chemical element
 * data element
 * heating element

Related terms

 * elemental
 * elementary

Adjectives
instinctive; structural; romantic; automatic; subtle; personal; opposing; radical; mutable; flavoring; incongruous; rare; hereditary; picturesque; lawless; thinkable; lymphatic; volitional; aesthetic; disproportionate; jarring; conservative; fragmentary; chemical; undefined; necessary; nationalistic; ominous; simple; discordant; valuable; discrepant; professional; poetic; complex; unalloyed; salient; airy; fighting; unlikely; limpid; primal; negligible; essential; various (pi); devouring; lurking; perverse; dramatic; exhilarated; commonest; dissolving; dreadful; unchained; reces¬sive; liberal; unimaginative; diviner; mercantile; physic; criminalistic; regressive; nutritional; denominative; ambient; basic; ancient; uncanny; lesser; heterogeneous; individual; maltreated; unobstructed; conflicting; sensual; insignificant; cultivated.

Thesaurus
acid, acidity, addend, adjunct, agent, air, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, americium, anion, antacid, antecedents, antilogarithm, appurtenance, argument, article, aspect, astatine, atmosphere, atom, atomic particles, autecology, base, basic, basics, basis, berkelium, binomial, biochemical, bioecology, bionomics, brute matter, building block, burner, caliduct, call, case, cation, causation, cause, cause and effect, characteristic, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, circumstance, coefficient, combination, complement, component, compound, congruence, constant, constituent, contents, cooker, cookery, copolymer, cosine, cotangent, count, cube, curium, datum, decimal, denominator, derivative, detail, determinant, determinative, difference, differential, dimer, discriminate, dividend, divisor, domain, e, earth, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, einsteinium, elementary particle, elementary unit, elements, environment, equation, essential, essentials, etiology, exponent, exponential, facet, fact, factor, feature, fermium, fire, fixings, formula, francium, function, fundamental, fundamental particle, fundamentals, furnace, gas jet, ground, grounds, habitat, hahnium, heater, heating duct, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, hyle, hypostasis, i, incidental, increment, index, ingredient, inorganic chemical, instance, integral, integrant, ion, isomer, item, jet, locale, macromolecule, makings, material, material world, materiality, matrix, matter, medium, mendelevium, metamer, minor detail, minuend, minutia, minutiae, molecule, monad, monomer, multiple, multiplier, natural world, nature, neptunium, neutralizer, nonacid, norm, numerator, occasion, organic chemical, oxyacid, parameter, part, part and parcel, particular, permutation, physical world, pi, piece, pilot light, plenum, plutonium, point, polonium, polymer, polynomial, power, principle, principles, promethium, protactinium, pseudoisomer, quaternion, quotient, radical, radium, radix, radon, reagent, reciprocal, regard, remainder, respect, root, rudiments, secant, segment, sine, situation, specialty, sphere, steam pipe, stimulus, stove, stuff, submultiple, substance, substratum, subtrahend, sulfacid, synecology, tangent, technetium, tensor, territory, tewel, the four elements, thing, trimer, tuyere, unit, unit of being, uranium, variable, vector, versine, warmer, water

Etymology
From element: <  element: <  elementum:; origin uncertain.

Translations

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 * Mandarin: 要素
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 * Romanian: element, elemente
 * Russian:, , составная часть
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 * Swedish: grundämne
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 * Telugu: మూలకము (moolakamu)


 * Czech:
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 * Finnish: alkuaine, klassinen alkuaine,
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 * Polish: żywioł
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 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: häivähdys, aavistus, varjo, siemen
 * Hebrew: שביב
 * Polish: odrobina


 * Romanian: particulă, părticică, element
 * Russian:, крупица
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 * Icelandic: stak, íbúi
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 * Japanese: 元, 要素
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 * Hebrew: גורם
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 * Hebrew: גוף חימום
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 * Romanian: element (de încălzire)
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 * Japanese: 要素, エレメント
 * Romanian: element
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 * : elfenn, -où (1) (2 ?)
 * : елемент

Anagrams

 * leetmen

Etymology
elementum.

Noun
element


 * 1) element.

Noun

 * 1) element
 * 2)  element
 * 3)  element

Anagrams

 * leemten

Alternative forms

 * (Bosnian, Serbian): elèmenat

Noun

 * 1) element

Noun

 * 1) element; basic building block of matter in ancient philosophy
 * 2) element; a place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards
 * 3) elements; forces of weather
 * 4) element; an object in a set
 * 5)  element of a matrix
 * 6) heating element
 * 7)  element; object in markup language

Related terms

 * elementär
 * elementa
 * elementar-

Etymology
From Element:.

Noun

 * 1)  element