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  • 61Joint Force Air Component Headquarters — and it has representation from the other services.The JFACHQ has members of all the operations and operations support branches of the RAF in order to both plan and execute the air war as well as support the deployed air components from A1 to A9.… …

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  • 62element — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. component, part, substance, constituent, ingredient; factor, principle, rudiment, fundamental. See cause, composition. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A part] Syn. component, constituent, factor, ingredient,… …

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  • 63element — element, component, constituent, ingredient, factor are comparable when they mean one of the parts, substances, or principles which make up a compound or complex thing. Element is, except in its specific sense in science, the most widely… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 64element — el·e·ment n: one of the constituent parts (as a particular act, a mental state, or an attendant circumstance) of a crime as defined by statute that the prosecution must prove to win a conviction Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam… …

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  • 65element — /el euh meuhnt/, n. 1. a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall. 2. Chem. one of a class of substances that cannot be separated… …

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  • 66ingredient — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. component, part, element, constituent. See composition. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. constituent, component, element; see element 1 , part 1 . See Synonym Study at element . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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  • 67element — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French & Latin; Anglo French, from Latin elementum Date: 13th century 1. a. any of the four substances air, water, fire, and earth formerly believed to compose the physical universe b. plural weather… …

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  • 68ingredient — I noun aspect, component, component part, constituent, constituent part, content, element, essential part, factor, feature, fragment, fundamental part, integral part, member, membrum, pars, part, section, sector, unit, unit of composition, vital… …

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  • 69element — el•e•ment art at electrum [[t]ˈɛl ə mənt[/t]] n. 1) a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis 2) chem. one of a class of substances that cannot be separated into simpler substances by …

    From formal English to slang

  • 70element — [el′ə mənt] n. [ME < OFr < L elementum, first principle, element] 1. any of the four substances (earth, air, fire, and water) formerly believed to constitute all physical matter 2. any of these four substances thought of as the natural… …

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