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elementary

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1. elementary - Noun

2. elementary - Adjective

3. elementary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. William Stanley Jevons

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. Steven Weinberg

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order . Albert Camus

Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage. Aleister Crowley

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary. C. S. Lewis

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens

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