(a.) Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
(a.) Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
(a.) Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(2) Inclusion-forming and non-inclusion-forming elementary bodies focused in one band at pI 4.64.
(3) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
(4) The aim of this program is to prevent dental caries by a weekly mouthrinsing by elementary school students.
(5) I knew I was gay since I was in elementary school, but I wanted to serve my country,” Gravett said.
(6) Because the clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia has not generally been an adequate phenotypic marker to detect the genes that convey risk for schizophrenia, efforts have been directed toward the identification of more elementary neuronal dysfunctions in schizophrenic patients and their families.
(7) Hours later, Trump arrived at his designated polling site, PS 59 elementary school in Manhattan, where more than 80 voters were lined up in the dark before voting opened at 6am.
(8) Elementary spherical particles similar to those described in the mitochondria are found in isolated rat liver and spleen nuclear membranes.
(9) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(10) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(11) The questionnaires were completed by the parents of 1000 unscreened elementary school children attending the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
(12) This article describes a mini-unit to help teachers prevent molestation of elementary school children.
(13) This quantal emission of the synaptic transmitter molecules (about 5000-10 000) is the elementary unit of the transmission process from one neuron to another.
(14) Their opinion is that elementary microsurgical technique and routine could be obtained only in the experimental laboratory.
(15) The microfibril has been constructed by convolution of th elementary fibril with a two dimensional point lattice.
(16) Tracey Iglehart, a teacher at Rosa Parks elementary school in Berkeley, California, did not expect Donald Trump to show up on the playground.
(17) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.
(18) Single intermediate bodies and no elementary bodies were observed.
(19) Elementary school children were susceptible to measles because they were born after the last major outbreak, but before measles vaccine was locally available.
(20) The new fourth generation of equipment presented here is characterized by considerably increased flexibility in dose delivery through the use of scanned elementary electron and photon beams of very high quality.
Inchoate
Definition:
(a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
(v. t.) To begin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
(2) The film-maker maunders about inchoately in the documentary, showing a "different" slice of life, and at one stage trots out the extraordinary defence that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
(3) Such analysis is done in well-documented and apparently logical form by the utilities and in a rather more inchoate but not necessarily less accurate form by the public.
(4) The detectable AChE activity at this age is apparently found in inchoate layers 1-2 and 4-5.
(5) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(6) Images inchoate and nonsensical, my arms and legs seemingly elongated and embalmed in grease, the sense of utter isolation while being gnawed by rats.
(7) The information and study was at an inchoate stage; therefore, further comparison and interpretation are needed to assess the findings.
(8) Attachment is fascinating as an idea; when it hardens into science, which is inchoate but treated as fact, its consequences can be devastating.
(9) But though, in interviews with the Guardian, young activists focused their anger on Jamaat-e-Islami, which they called "the terrorist group", a series of more inchoate discontents underpinned the movement too.
(10) The other challenge to Cameron, Miliband and Clegg and anyone who hopes to step into their shoes, is that the quarrel between the two firebrands reflects inchoate though powerful undercurrents.
(11) He incorporates within his writing both his stunning and at times crippling intellectual powers and his dark inchoate mournful passion and remorse.
(12) He started with a call for military action, then veered into a prayer for diplomacy before trailing off into an inchoate “stay tuned” denouement.
(13) More recent criticism has emphasised Holden's inchoate desire for something purer and truer than the cruelty and "phoniness" of the unredeemed world.
(14) Given the spontaneous, geographically diverse and inchoate nature of these disturbances, there was never a credible single cause.
(15) Obese entitlement and inchoate bluster; but white as they are white.
(16) Public sentiment whipsawed between unimaginable grief and inchoate rage, and the NRA provided a concrete proposal whose very outlandishness contained a glimmer of hope: no one has ever before seriously proposed weaponizing public schools.
(17) Many of us brood on the abyss – the sense that, in some large, inchoate way, we are nearing the end of life as we know it.
(18) In Uganda there is an inchoate revolution struggling to be born.
(19) Yes, there was some resistance to Putin’s increasing control, but the opposition – inchoate, confused and conflicted – was easily undermined.
(20) Political struggle for a better world has given way to inchoate identity-driven rage.