element
IPA: ˈɛɫʌmʌnt
noun
- 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.
- (chemistry) 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.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- (obsolete) The sky.
- (obsolete) Any one of the heavenly spheres believed to carry the celestial bodies.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- 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.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
verb
- (obsolete) To compound of elements.
- (obsolete) To constitute and be the elements of.
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Examples of "element" in Sentences
- It is the pure source of the elements.
- The prescriptive element is paramount.
- Is it simply the rarity of the elements
- The controversial element is the oversight.
- The drawing is the situation of the element.
- The component catalog is the central element.
- The disparagement is an element in the snobbism.
- The element is the core component of the time machine.
- A resistive element is attached to the sensing element within the sensor.
- The scriptural elements that were established are the same scriptural elements.
- In other words, HTML browsers know that the title element will appear in the title bar; they know that hyperlinks are blue and underlined.
- Most SEOs will agree that the title element is your strongest on-page element, and optimizing the title is critical for rankings and traffic.
- After you've specified any of the charset, X-UA-Compatible, and BASE declarations you need, finish out your HEAD tag with a TITLE element and any other markup.
- Just as one element of the dream leads to associations with several dream thoughts, so, as a rule, the _one dream thought represents more than one dream element_.
- 1The element A may be either a complete and independent word (sing) or the fundamental substance, the so-called root or stem2 or radical element (sing -) of a word.
- For example, the following model is not acceptable: because when the XML processor is reading the element EXAMPLE in Benoît Marchal it cannot decide whether the title element is part of (title, author) or of
- When a main element is dependence on a unilaterally declared temporary cease-fire by one of the key violent actors on the scene – which has not been defeated and which can rescind the cease-fire at any time – how can it be termed a “success”, nevermind a “victory”?
- In this context he defined the term element in Sceptical Chymist (1661) as "... certain primitive and simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved."