element

Usage

• elementary

  The elementary parts of something you learn are the simplest, beginning, and first things that you learn about it.

• element

  One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

• elemental

  Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.

• elements

  pure substances, such as oxygen and gold,, that comprise the Periodic Table