Definition of Elementary

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Elementary

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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Elementary Quotations

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Albert Schweitzer

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
Susan Sontag

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Billy Crystal

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.
Murray Gell-Mann

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.
Murray Gell-Mann

I was an elementary school teacher.
Luciano Pavarotti

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
Sally Ride

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
Christa McAuliffe

Elementary Translations

elementary in Dutch is elementair
elementary in German is elementare, elementar
elementary in Portuguese is elementar
elementary in Spanish is elemental

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