Elementary may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
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''Elementary'' (Cindy Morgan album), 2001
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''Elementary'' (The End album), 2007
* ''Elementary'', a
Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin album, 1977
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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''Elementary'' (TV series), a 2012 American drama television series
* "Elementary, my dear Watson", a
catchphrase of Sherlock Holmes
Education
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act, US
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Elementary education, or primary education, the first years of formal, structured education
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Elementary Education Act 1870, England and Wales
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Elementary school, a school providing elementary or primary education
Science and technology
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ELEMENTARY, a class of objects in computational complexity theory
* Elementary, a widget set based on the
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a set of graphics libraries that grew out of the development of Enlightenment, a window manager and Wayland compositor. The project's focus is to make the EFL a flexible yet powerful and easy t ...
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Elementary abelian group
In mathematics, specifically in group theory, an elementary abelian group is an abelian group in which all elements other than the identity have the same order. This common order must be a prime number, and the elementary abelian groups in whic ...
, an abelian group in which every nontrivial element is of prime order
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Elementary algebra
Elementary algebra, also known as high school algebra or college algebra, encompasses the basic concepts of algebra. It is often contrasted with arithmetic: arithmetic deals with specified numbers, whilst algebra introduces variable (mathematics ...
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Elementary arithmetic
Elementary arithmetic is a branch of mathematics involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and Division (mathematics), division. Due to its low level of abstraction, broad range of application, and position as the foundation of all mathema ...
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Elementary charge
The elementary charge, usually denoted by , is a fundamental physical constant, defined as the electric charge carried by a single proton (+1 ''e'') or, equivalently, the magnitude of the negative electric charge carried by a single electron, ...
, ''e'', of a single electron
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Elementary definition In mathematical logic, an elementary definition is a definition that can be made using only finitary first-order logic, and in particular without reference to set theory
Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies Set (math ...
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elementary OS
Elementary OS (stylized as elementary OS) is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It promotes itself as a "thoughtful, capable, and ethical" replacement to macOS and Microsoft Windows, Windows and has a pay what you want, pay-what-you-wan ...
, a Linux distribution
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Elementary particle
In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model presently recognizes seventeen distinct particles—twelve fermions and five bosons. As a c ...
, in particle physics
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Elementary proof In mathematics, an elementary proof is a mathematical proof that only uses basic techniques. More specifically, the term is used in number theory to refer to proofs that make no use of complex analysis. Historically, it was once thought that certain ...
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Elementary function
In mathematics, an elementary function is a function of a single variable (typically real or complex) that is defined as taking sums, products, roots and compositions of finitely many polynomial, rational, trigonometric, hyperbolic, a ...
See also
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Element (disambiguation)
Element or elements may refer to:
Science
* Chemical element, a pure substance of one type of atom
* Heating element, a device that generates heat by electrical resistance
* Orbital elements, parameters required to identify a specific orbit of ...
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Elemental (disambiguation)
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