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What does elementary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word elementary? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  2. Relating to an elementary school.
  3. (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
  4. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
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The founding of elementary schools, academies, and universities was an important part of the reform movement.
True elementary arithmetic consists of all true well-formed sentences of this restricted language.
One of the bizarre paradoxes of quantum mechanics is that elementary particles can exist in two or more states at the same time.
Enough familiarity with quantification theory is assumed to handle the very elementary quantificational concepts involved.
The protons and neutrons in the nucleus are made of elementary particles called quarks.
The foundation conducted the survey among 1,501 teachers at elementary and junior high schools in June.

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