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nounan 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
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nounany of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
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nounan abstract part of something
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nouna straight line that generates a cylinder or conetype of:
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nounone of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universetype of:
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nounthe most favorable environment for a plant or animaltype of:
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nounthe situation in which you are happiest and most effectivetype of:
Examples of element
- "a component or constituent element of a system"
- "the grammatical elements of a sentence"
- "the alchemists believed that there were four elements"
- "water is the element of fishes"
- "in your element"