elementary

  1. Adjective.  Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  2. Adjective.  Relating to an elementary school.
  3. Adjective.  (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
  4. Adjective.  (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.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.