Elementary
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Elementary
Adjective
- Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
- Very simple.
- Relating to an elementary school.
- Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes. Relating to a subatomic particle. Involving only a single reaction step and transition state. 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). Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Relating to a subatomic particle.
Noun
- Ellipsis of elementary school.
"At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest."
- A supernatural being associated with the elements.