Adjective

elementary

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

Elementary:

• Education
  • Elementary education, consists of the first years of formal, structured education that occur during childhood.
  • Elementary school, a school providing elementary or primary education. Historically, a school in the UK providing a basic education for the working classes.
• Fiction
  • Sherlock Holmes: "Elementary, my dear Watson" (which does not appear in the books)
  • Elementary, Dear Data is the third episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Music
  • Elementary (album) is the third album released by The End, a Canadian mathcore band.
  • Elementary (Cindy Morgan album)
• Physics
  • In particle physics, an elementary particle is a particle of which other, larger particles are composed.
  • The elementary charge (symbol e or sometimes q) is the electric charge carried by a single proton, or equivalently, the negative of the electric charge carried by a single electron.
• Mathematics
  • Elementary arithmetic is the most basic kind of mathematics: it concerns the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Elementary algebra is the most basic form of algebra taught to students who are presumed to have no knowledge of mathematics beyond the basic principles of arithmetic.
  • In computational complexity theory, the complexity class ELEMENTARY is the union of the classes in the exponential hierarchy.
  • An elementary reflector is a vector that implements reflection (mathematics).
  • Elementary symmetric polynomials are basic building block for symmetric polynomials.
  • Elementary matrix or elementary row and column transformations are linear maps which are normally used in Gaussian elimination to solve a set of linear equations.
  • In probability theory, an elementary event is a subset of a sample space that contains only one element.
  • In differential algebra, an elementary function is a function built from a finite number of exponentials, logarithms, constants, one variable, and roots of equations through composition and combinations using the four elementary operations (+ − × ÷).
  • Elementary class
  • Elementary equivalence
  • Elementary group theory
  • Definitions which are elementary (logic) are those made using only first-order logic, without reference to set theory.