element
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(noun) the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; "water is the element of fishes" |
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Related Words: environment, environs, surround, surroundings |
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(noun) a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone |
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Related Words: element of a cone, element of a cylinder, straight line |
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(noun) the situation in which you are happiest and most effective; "in your element" |
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Related Words: situation, state of affairs |
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(noun) one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements" |
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Related Words: air, earth, ether, fire, matter, quintessence, substance, water |
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(noun) any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 93 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
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Synonyms: chemical element |
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Related Words: Ac, Ar, As, At, B, Br, C, Cl, F, Ge, H, He, I, Kr, Ku, Lw, Md, Mv, N, Ne, No, O, P, Pu, Rf, Rn, S, Se, Si, Te, Unh, Unp, Unq, Uns, Xe, actinium, allotrope, argon, argonon, arsenic, astatine, atomic number 1, atomic number 10, atomic number 101, atomic number 102, atomic number 103, atomic number 104, atomic number 105, atomic number 106, atomic number 107, atomic number 14, atomic number 15, atomic number 16, atomic number 17, atomic number 18, atomic number 2, atomic number 32, atomic number 33, atomic number 34, atomic number 35, atomic number 5, atomic number 52, atomic number 53, atomic number 54, atomic number 6, atomic number 7, atomic number 8, atomic number 85, atomic number 86, atomic number 89, atomic number 9, atomic number 94, boron, bromine, carbon, chlorine, element 104, element 105, element 106, element 107, fluorine, germanium, hahnium, halogen, helium, hydrogen, inert gas, iodin, iodine, krypton, kurchatovium, lanthanide, lanthanon, lawrencium, matter, mendelevium, metal, metallic element, neon, nitrogen, nobelium, noble gas, nonmetal, oxygen, phosphorus, plutonium, radon, rare earth, rare-earth element, rutherfordium, selenium, silicon, substance, sulfur, sulphur, tellurium, trace element, transuranic element, unnilhexium, unnilpentium, unnilquadium, unnilquintium, unnilseptium, xenon |
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(noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system: "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" |
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Synonyms: component, constituent |
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Related Words: accessory, addition, appurtenance, audio, computer hardware, crystal, hardware, improver, ingredient, landside, module, part, pel, picture element, pixel, portion, spare, spare part, spark gap, supplement, video |
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(noun) an abstract part of something: "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech" |
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Synonyms: component, constituent, factor, ingredient |
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Related Words: division, part, point, section |
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