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elementary

[el-uh-men-tuh-ree, -tree]

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adjective

pertaining to or dealing with elements, rudiments, or first principles: an elementary grammar.

of or pertaining to an elementary school: elementary teachers.

of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple or uncompounded.

pertaining to the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or to the great forces of nature; elemental.

Chemistry. of or noting one or more elements.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English elementare (< Middle French elementaire) < Latin elementārius. See element, -ary

Related forms

el·e·men·tar·i·ly

[el-uh-men-ter-uh-lee] , adverb

el·e·men·ta·ri·ness, noun

non·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

post·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

pre·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

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qua·si-el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

su·per·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

trans·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

un·el·e·men·ta·ry, adjective

COLLAPSE

Can be confused: 1. eleemosynary, elementary (see synonym note at the current entry); 2. elemental, elementary.

Synonyms
1. Elementary, primary, rudimentary refer to what is basic and fundamental. Elementary refers to the introductory, simple, easy facts or parts of a subject that must necessarily be learned first in order to understand succeeding ones: elementary arithmetic. Primary may mean much the same as elementary; however, it usually emphasizes the idea of what comes first even more than that of simplicity: primary steps. Rudimentary applies to what is undeveloped or imperfect: a rudimentary form of government.

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Example Sentences

Challenges for parents increase as children enter elementary school.

The problem is that the school is not safe, even in elementary school.

Well, you can find that astonishing and stupendous principle in any basic micro-economic undergraduate elementary textbook.

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Challenges for parents increase as children enter elementary school.

The problem is that the school is not safe, even in elementary school.

Well, you can find that astonishing and stupendous principle in any basic micro-economic undergraduate elementary textbook.

One of the first lessons that girls often learn in elementary school is that boys are better at math.

Each color rod represents a different length, and they are used to help elementary students master simple addition and fractions.

The head of the company in charge of administering the e-rate is leaving to become an elementary school teacher.

College dorms are right up there with day care centers and elementary schools when it comes to spreading germs.

Our best teachers ought to be in the elementary schools.

The muon was the first elementary particle discovered that does not appear in ordinary atoms.

Dinosaurs regularly popped up during my early elementary school education.

The app space is overflowing with math-related apps for preschoolers and early elementary.

At its smallest scale, matter consists of elementary particles that cannot be divided.

There is a great deal to physics besides elementary particles.

The shyest elementary particles may not be able to evade their seekers for long.

Rockwell had recruited the boy from the local elementary school to play a plucky young vagabond.

Two research teams have found new evidence of transformations in elusive elementary particles called neutrinos.

Elementary education is overwhelmingly a female occupation.

Elementary school is the level to get kids hooked on science.

Come on people, all shells and also chalk and marble it is calcium carbonate, this is know any elementary school students.

The program and materials are perfect for reaching out and teaching to this early elementary age group, on their level.

One need not test individual teachers to choose an elementary school.

Applications such as quantum computing demand the control of beams down to single photons, the elementary particles of light.

In fact, they had not yet finished elementary school.

They would be microscopic, comparable in size to elementary particles.

The school is part of an effort to improve elementary education.

Consider donating them to elementary schools that are not in affluent neighborhoods.

But researchers had made the elementary error of trying to teach their anthropoid subjects to speak.

We had elementary schools and a canine day care center.

Schools debate whether to extend the nurturing cocoon of elementary school or to rush students into high school.

School reform initiatives are underway in high schools, middle, and elementary schools.

Much else in elementary economics also gets mangled here.

Includes lots of fun facts and details that reinforce natural science concepts taught in elementary school.

The model lays out the properties of all known elementary particles.

Somehow, air-conditioning fluid got into the water system in an elementary school, and children drank.

Here is the situation--several years ago my older son was in elementary school.

The authors found the sharing they examined obeyed the principles of elementary game theory:.

If your children are in elementary school, ask them to decorate the bins.

Sweeney says the trips have enhanced the way she teaches her elementary school students.

Such mishaps are less an issue of ideology than of elementary discipline.

My goal for later on is to be an elementary school teacher.

Melvin was an early standout during his youth football days while in elementary school.

But if recent trends in elementary and secondary education hold their course, that stereotype could be changing.

Neither of his parents graduated from elementary school, and he was the first of seven siblings to attend college.

Unless they avoid such elementary mistakes, a firm's own employees may pose the largest single risk to security.

They only know the date from elementary school history lessons.

Phone calls were also made to her former elementary school under false pretenses.

There is an article in today's paper stating that elementary and high school libraries are being cut significantly.

Elementary school students have performed well in some local tests, but their scores in national exams have hardly budged.

Photons are the supposed elementary matter of light.

These truths weren't written by a bloggster to reach in your pocket, this is elementary physics.

In universities, high schools, and elementary schools these e-books already are in high demand.

The study lasted nine weeks, and took place among elementary school students.

It's pathetic that college is becoming the new elementary school.

It has evolved from a formless soup of elementary particles into.

He stopped by an elementary school and asked the children what most.

One answer is typing instruction programs aimed at older elementary or middle school kids.

Few will have had more than an elementary education.

Anne struggled with reading throughout elementary school, but writing grew easier.

Must of the times to be an elementary school teacher you have to have more than a college degree.

It is said that the number of neural connections exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

Have to give the kids a bit of credit for that, if a good portion of them weren't elementary students.

Coe said she frequently works in an elementary school, and the technicians are the only ones allowed to touch the machines.

Endeavour name was the result of a national public contest of elementary and secondary school students.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

elementary (ˌɛlɪˈmɛntərɪ, -trɪ)

—*adj*
1.	not difficult; simple; rudimentary
2.	of or concerned with the first principles of a subject; introductory or fundamental
3.	maths (of a function) having the form of an algebraic, exponential, trigonometric, or a logarithmic function, or any combination of these
4.	chem another word for elemental

ele'mentarily

—*adv*

ele'mentariness

—n

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Word Origin & History

elementary

1540s, rudimentary, from L. elementarius, from elementum (see element). Meaning simple is from 1620s. Elementary school is 1841.

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