Dictionary Definition
element
Noun
1 an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a
component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical
composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a
sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective
ingredient of a speech" [syn: component, constituent, factor, ingredient]
2 any of the more than 100 known substances (of
which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler
substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
[syn: chemical
element]
3 an artifact that is one of the individual parts
of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can
be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for
cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" [syn:
component, constituent]
4 one of four substances thought in ancient and
medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the
alchemists believed that there were four elements"
5 the most favorable environment for a plant or
animal; "water is the element of fishes"
6 the situation in which you are happiest and
most effective; "in your element"
7 a straight line that generates a cylinder or
cone
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈel.ɪ.mənt/, /"El.I.m@nt/
Noun
- 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.
- Something small.
- an element of doubt
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is
better suited towards.
- be in one's own element
- A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- One of the objects in a set.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular
common characteristic.
- You sometimes find the hooligan element at football matches.
- A short form of heating element, 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.
- The element in this electric kettle can heat the water in under a minute.
Synonyms
- (in chemistry): chemical element
- (in set theory): member
Translations
in chemistry
in alchemy
something small, as in "an element of doubt"
place or state of being that an individual or
object is better suited towards
in law
- Dutch: element , gegeven
- Finnish: tunnusmerkki
in set theory
electrical component
translations to be checked
Derived terms
Related terms
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Etymology
elementum.Noun
element- element.
Declension
References
Extensive Definition
The name element may refer to:
In art:
In chemistry, electronics or the geosciences:
- Chemical element, a type of atom
- Electrical element
- Landform element, a particular type of feature.
- Heating element, an electronic device that converts electricity to heat.
- Element Electronics, a brand of LCD TVs, plasma TVs, and portable DVD players
In computing:
- HTML element
- Elements Application Framework, a web framework
- Element (UML), a term used in the Unified Modeling Language
- Element of an Array
- Adobe Photoshop Elements
In grammar:
- Element (grammar), any word, part of a word, or group of words that recurs in various contexts in a language with relatively constant meaning.
In law:
- Element (criminal), a basic set of common law principles regarding criminal liability.
In mathematics:
- Element (mathematics), a member of a set or class
- Euclid's Elements, a mathematical treatise on geometry
In metadata:
- Data element is a unit of data
In music:
- Elements (Mike Oldfield), a number of albums by Mike Oldfield
- Elements (Roger Glover album)
- Elements, Pt. 1 an album by Stratovarius
- Elements, Pt. 2 an album by Stratovarius
- The Elements (song), by Tom Lehrer
- Elements (Steve Howe album)
- Elements (album) an album by Atheist
- Elements in Hip hop culture
In philosophy:
- Classical element
- Five elements (Chinese philosophy), the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoism
- Five elements (Japanese philosophy), the basis of the universe according to Japanese philosophy
- Tattva, the basis of the universe according to Hindu Samkhya philosophy
- Mahābhūta Buddhist great elements
- Bhūta are five elements in Hinduism.
Element may also refer to:
- Element Skateboards, a skateboard manufacturer
- Honda Element, a sport utility vehicle
- 'The Elements', or Weather
- Elements Mall, a shopping mall in Hong Kong
- The elements, items from the Legend of Zelda series
- The Elements of bread and wine that are consecrated at the Christian Eucharist
element in Catalan: Element
element in Welsh: Elfen
element in German: Element
element in Estonian: Element
element in Spanish: Elemento
element in Esperanto: Elemento
element in Basque: Elementu
element in French: Élément
element in Friulian: Element
element in Irish: Dúil
element in Galician: Elemento
element in Korean: 원소
element in Ido: Elemento
element in Interlingua (International Auxiliary
Language Association): Elemento (disambiguation)
element in Italian: Elemento
element in Hebrew: יסודות
element in Latin: Elementum (discretiva)
element in Latvian: Elements
element in Lithuanian: Elementas
element in Malay (macrolanguage): Unsur
element in Dutch: Element
element in Japanese: エレメント
element in Polish: Pierwiastek
element in Portuguese: Elementos
element in Romanian: Element
element in Simple English: Element
element in Finnish: Elementti
element in Swedish: Element
element in Tagalog: Elemento
element in Vietnamese: Nguyên tố
element in Ukrainian: Елемент
element in Chinese: 元素 (消歧義)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acid,
acidity, addend, adjunct, agent, air, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, americium, anion, antacid, antecedents, antilogarithm, appurtenance, argument, article, aspect, astatine, atmosphere, atom, atomic particles, autecology, base, basic, basics, basis, berkelium, binomial, biochemical, bioecology, bionomics, brute matter,
building block, burner,
caliduct, call, case, cation, causation, cause, cause and effect, characteristic, chemical, chemical element,
chromoisomer,
circumstance,
coefficient,
combination,
complement, component, compound, congruence, constant, constituent, contents, cooker, cookery, copolymer, cosine, cotangent, count, cube, curium, datum, decimal, denominator, derivative, detail, determinant, determinative, difference, differential, dimer, discriminate, dividend, divisor, domain, e, earth, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, einsteinium, elementary
particle, elementary unit, elements, environment, equation, essential, essentials, etiology, exponent, exponential, facet, fact, factor, feature, fermium, fire, fixings, formula, francium, function, fundamental, fundamental
particle, fundamentals, furnace, gas jet, ground, grounds, habitat, hahnium, heater, heating duct, heavy
chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, hyle, hypostasis, i, incidental, increment, index, ingredient, inorganic
chemical, instance,
integral, integrant, ion, isomer, item, jet, locale, macromolecule, makings, material, material world,
materiality,
matrix, matter, medium, mendelevium, metamer, minor detail, minuend, minutia, minutiae, molecule, monad, monomer, multiple, multiplier, natural world,
nature, neptunium, neutralizer, nonacid, norm, numerator, occasion, organic chemical,
oxyacid, parameter, part, part and parcel, particular, permutation, physical world,
pi, piece, pilot light, plenum, plutonium, point, polonium, polymer, polynomial, power, principle, principles, promethium, protactinium, pseudoisomer, quaternion, quotient, radical, radium, radix, radon, reagent, reciprocal, regard, remainder, respect, root, rudiments, secant, segment, sine, situation, specialty, sphere, steam pipe, stimulus, stove, stuff, submultiple, substance, substratum, subtrahend, sulfacid, synecology, tangent, technetium, tensor, territory, tewel, the four elements, thing, trimer, tuyere, unit, unit of being, uranium, variable, vector, versine, warmer, water