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  1. noun A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity.
  2. noun The basic assumptions or principles of a subject.
  3. noun Mathematics A member of a set.
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  • Most SEOs will agree that the title element is your strongest on-page element, and optimizing the title is critical for rankings and traffic. —  Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
  • The other element is the lower payment to Apple per phone sold, obviously. —  Communities Dominate Brands
  • "The data element is an increasing target of attacks," Lobel said. —  BankTech - All Stories
  • Animals feeding on these plants assimilate the nitrogenous matter, so that this element is an essential constituent of both plants and animals Decomposition of organic matter by bacteria.~ When living matter dies and undergoes decay complicated chemical reactions take place, one result of which is that the nitrogen of the organic matter is set free either as the element nitrogen, or in the form of simple compounds, such as ammonia (NH_{3}) or oxides of nitrogen. —  An Elementary Study of Chemistry
  • Within its gates we pass into a new element; and this element is antipathetic to the one-sided development imposed by city life. —  Fifth Avenue
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin elementum, perhaps ultimately from lmn, first three letters of the second half of the Canaanite alphabet, recited by ancient scribes when learning it.

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  1. from Middle English element, from Old French element, French élément = Spanish Portuguese Italian elemento = D. G. Danish Swedish element, from Latin elementum, a first principle, element, rudiment, plural first principles, the elements (of existing things), the elements of knowledge, the alphabet; origin uncertain. The common derivation of the word from alere, nourish, which would identify elementum with alimentum, nourishment (see aliment), is wholly improbable. Several other derivations have been proposed, of which one assumes the orig. sense to be ‘the alphabet,’ the ‘A-B-C,’ or literally the ‘L-M-N,’ the word being formed, in this view, from el + em + en, the names of the letters L, M, N, + the termination -tum, as in the common formative -mentum, English -ment.
  2. from element, n.
 

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