essential+element

  • 11element — 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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  • 12Element — El e*ment, n. [F. [ e]l[ e]ment, L. elementum.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. One of the ultimate …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13element — [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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  • 14element — 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

  • 15essential — [adj1] important, vital capital, cardinal, chief, constitutive, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, righthand, wanted;… …

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  • 16essential part — index body (main part), center (essence), character (personal quality), characteristic, content (meaning) …

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  • 17element — [n1] essential feature aspect, basic, basis, bit, component, constituent, detail, drop, facet, factor, fundamental, hint, ingredient, item, material, matter, member, part, particle, particular, piece, portion, principle, root, section, stem,… …

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  • 18Essential matrix — In computer vision, the essential matrix is a 3 imes 3 matrix mathbf{E} , with some additional properties, which relates corresponding points in stereo images assuming that the cameras satisfy the pinhole camera model.FunctionMore specifically,… …

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  • 19Essential range — In mathematics, particularly measure theory, the essential range of a function is intuitively the non negligible range of the function. One way of thinking of the essential range of a function is the set on which the range of the function is most …

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  • 20element — n. component 1) a basic, essential, vital element group 2) a foreign element 3) criminal; extremist; subversive; undesirable elements substance 4) chemical elements natural environment 5) in one s element; out of one s element factor 6) the human …

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