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fundamental
English
Alternative forms
- foundament (when used as a noun)
Etymology
From Late Latin fundament?lis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fund? (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?nd??m?nt?l/
- Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal
Noun
fundamental (plural fundamentals)
- (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part
- one of the fundamentals of linear algebra
- (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
- (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
Translations
Adjective
fundamental (comparative more fundamental, superlative most fundamental)
- Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
- Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.
Synonyms
- groundlaying
- See also Thesaurus:bare-bones
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- fundamental in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fundamental in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Danish
Etymology
From fundament +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ndam?nta?l/, [f?nd?am?n?t?æ??l]
Adjective
fundamental
- basic, fundamental
Inflection
Synonyms
- afgørende
- basal
- grundliggende, grundlæggende
Derived terms
- fundamentalisme
- fundamentalist
Galician
Etymology
From Latin fund?ment?lis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fundamental m or f (plural fundamentais)
- fundamental
Further reading
- “fundamental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German
Etymology
From Latin fund?ment?lis; synchronically analyzable as Fundament +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ndam?n?ta?l/
- Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal
Adjective
fundamental (comparative fundamentaler, superlative am fundamentalsten)
- fundamental
Declension
Synonyms
- grundlegend
Derived terms
- Fundamentalismus, Fundamentalist
Related terms
- Fundamentalerkenntnis, Fundamentalentscheidung, Fundamentalgesetz, Fundamentalsatz
Further reading
- “fundamental” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin fundamentalis
Adjective
fundamental (masculine and feminine fundamental, neuter fundamentalt, definite singular and plural fundamentale)
- fundamental, basic
Related terms
- fundament
References
- “fundamental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “fundamental” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin fundamentalis
Adjective
fundamental (masculine and feminine fundamental, neuter fundamentalt, definite singular and plural fundamentale)
- fundamental, basic
Related terms
- fundament
References
- “fundamental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin fund?ment?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?f?.da.m?.?taw/, /f?.?da.m?.?taw/
- Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal
Adjective
fundamental m or f (plural fundamentais, comparable)
- fundamental; essential (pertaining to the basic part or notion of something)
- Synonyms: essencial, básico
Derived terms
- fundamentalismo
- fundamentalista
- fundamentalmente
Further reading
- “fundamental” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “fundamental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From French fondamental, from Latin fundamentalis
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fun.da.men?tal/
Adjective
fundamental m or n (feminine singular fundamental?, masculine plural fundamentali, feminine and neuter plural fundamentale)
- fundamental
Declension
Related terms
References
- fundamental in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin fund?ment?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fundamen?tal/, [f?n?.d?a.m?n??t?al]
- Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal
Adjective
fundamental (plural fundamentales)
- fundamental
Derived terms
- fundamentalismo
- fundamentalista
- fundamentalmente
- interacción fundamental
Related terms
- fundamentar
- fundamento
- fundar
Further reading
- “fundamental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Adjective
fundamental (not comparable)
- fundamental
Declension
References
- fundamental in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- fundamental in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
fundamental From the web:
- what fundamental means
- what fundamentals to look for in a stock
- what is fundamental
theorem
English
Etymology
From Middle French théorème, from Late Latin the?r?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (the?r?ma, “speculation, proposition to be proved”) (Euclid), from ?????? (the?ré?, “I look at, view, consider, examine”), from ?????? (the?rós, “spectator”), from ??? (théa, “a view”) + ???? (horá?, “I see, look”). See also theory, and theater.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??i?.?.??m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?????.?m/
Noun
theorem (plural theorems)
- (mathematics) A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
- (mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true
- Fermat's Last Theorem was known thus long before it was proved in the 1990s.
- (logic) A syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system.
Synonyms
- (proven statement): lemma, proposition, statement
- (unproven statement): conjecture
- See also Thesaurus:statement
Hyponyms
Holonyms
- theory
Related terms
- theoretical
- theory
Translations
Verb
theorem (third-person singular simple present theorems, present participle theoreming, simple past and past participle theoremed)
- (transitive) To formulate into a theorem.
Further reading
- theorem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- theorem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- theorem at OneLook Dictionary Search
theorem From the web:
- what theorem proves triangles are congruent
- what theorem proves lines are parallel
- what theorems prove triangles similar
- what theorem can abdul
- what theorems accurately complete the proof
- what theorem proves supplementary angles
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