Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Elementariness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Elementariness.

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  • noun obsolete The quality of being elementary.

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Examples

  • In modern physics, then, elementarity is far from elementary.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • This clearly undermines the Democritean mereological concept of elementarity, in which a composite entity has a unique decomposition into a set of indivisible entities.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • In this context, elementarity seems to correspond to nothing more than the choice of a particularly convenient decomposition of oscillatory behaviour.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

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