Essential or essentials may refer to:

Biology

Essential amino acid An essential amino acid, or indispensable amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized from scratch by the organism fast enough to supply its demand, and must therefore come from the diet. Of the 21 amino acids common to all life forms ...

, one that the organism cannot produce by itself

Groups and organizations

* EQ Media Group, formerly Essential Media Group, a global television production company *

Essential Media Communications Essential Media Communications Pty Ltd, also known as Essential Media, Essential Research, or simply Essential, is an Australian public relations and market research company known for its political campaigns and opinion polls. History and work ...

, an Australian PR and polling company * Essential Products, a smart device company led by Andy Rubin *

Essential Records (London) Essential Records is a subsidiary of London Records and is an offshoot of Pete Tong's Essential Selection programme on Radio 1. The later originated US label, run by London-Sire Records from 2000 to 2001, released dance music compilations fr ...

, a subsidiary of London Records *

Essential Records (Christian) Essential Records is a contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is a division of the major label Sony Music Nashville. History It was established in 1992 and acquired by Brentwood Music i ...

, a Christian subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment *

The Essentials (band) The Essentials was a Canadian a cappella group founded in London, Ontario, Canada in 1993, that were based out of Toronto from 2000 onward. Band co-founders Joon Nah and Joe Oliva attended London Central Secondary School where they co-founded ...

, a Canadian a cappella group formed in 1993 *

Essentials (PlayStation) Essentials is the Sony PlayStation budget range in the PAL region, which covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Australia and South Asia. It was launched in 1997 as the Platinum range but was later renamed for PlayStation Portable, PlayS ...

, a budget package of PlayStation games

Albums

* ''Essential'' (Divinyls album), a compilation album, 1991 * ''Essential'' (Pet Shop Boys album), 1998 * ''Essential'' (Ramones album), 2007 * ''Essential'' (CeCe Peniston album), 2000 * ''Essential'' (Jethro Tull album) * Essential (Kate Ryan album), 2008 * ''Essential'' (Praga Khan album), 2005 * ''Essentials'' (Nate Dogg album), a compilation album, 2002 * ''Essentials'' (Failure album), 2006 *''Essentials'', a studio album by Argentine jazz singer

Karen Souza Karen Souza (born January 10, 1984) is an Argentinian jazz and bossa nova singer. Career Souza began her career by providing vocals for producers of electronic music. Under pseudonyms she sang versions of hits songs from t ...

, 2011 *''Essential'', a compilation album by

Amanda Lear Amanda Lear (; born 18 June or 18 November 1939 or 1941 or 1946 or 1950) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and went on ...

, 2001 *''Essential'', a compilation album by

The Human League The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic music, electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their t ...

, 2011 *''Essentials'', an album by

Travis Tritt James Travis Tritt (born February 9, 1963) is an American country music, country singer-songwriter. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In t ...

*''Essentials'', an album by

Triumvirat Triumvirat was a West German progressive rock band from Cologne in then-West Germany. They became, during the 1970s, a key figure in Eurock, the progressive rock of continental Europe whose German variant is called krautrock. The name Triumvira ...

* ''Essential'' series, a collection of compilation albums published by Sony's

Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music. Formed in 1990 after Sony's acquisition of CBS Records, Legacy originally handled the archives of Sony Music-owned labels Columbia Records and Epic Records. In 2 ...

label

Other uses

Essentialism Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their Identity (philosophy), identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an Theory of forms, "idea" or "f ...

, the philosophical view that an entity must have certain characteristics in order to belong to a certain defined group * ''Essentials'' (magazine), a monthly British women's lifestyle magazine * Essentials, a clothing label founded by

Jerry Lorenzo Jerry Lorenzo Manuel Jr. (born October 5, 1977) is an American fashion designer. He is the founder of the American streetwear label Fear of God. He is also the son of former MLB player, coach, and manager Jerry Manuel. Lorenzo founded Fear of G ...

Biology

Groups and organizations

Albums

Other uses

See also