essential+element

  • 21essential — I UK [ɪˈsenʃ(ə)l] / US adjective *** 1) completely necessary In a large organization, good internal communication is essential. essential for: Light is absolutely essential for the healthy development of plants. essential to: He had acquired the… …

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  • 22essential — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. substantial, material, constitutional, fundamental, elementary, absolute; necessary, needful, requisite, cardinal, indispensable, vital; inherent, intrinsic, basic. See necessity, part, importance.… …

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  • 23Essential singularity — In complex analysis, an essential singularity of a function is a severe singularity near which the function exhibits extreme behavior. Formally, consider an open subset U of the complex plane C, an element a of U , and a meromorphic function f :… …

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  • 24essential — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, seem ▪ become ▪ It is becoming almost essential for students to have a second language. ▪ remain ▪ …

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  • 25Essential facilities doctrine — The essential facilities doctrine (sometimes also referred to as the essential facility doctrine) is a legal doctrine which describes a particular type of claim of monopolization made under competition laws. In general, it refers to a type of… …

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  • 26Essential manifold — In mathematics, in algebraic topology and differential geometry, the notion of an essential manifold seems to have been first introduced explicitly in Mikhail Gromov s classic text in 83 (see below). DefinitionA closed manifold M is called… …

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  • 27element — noun 1 one part of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ basic, core, critical, crucial, decisive, distinctive, essential, fundamental, important, key …

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  • 28essential — essentially, adv. essentialness, n. /euh sen sheuhl/, adj. 1. absolutely necessary; indispensable: Discipline is essential in an army. 2. pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing. 3. noting or containing an essence of a plant, drug,… …

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  • 29essential — es•sen•tial [[t]əˈsɛn ʃəl[/t]] adj. 1) absolutely necessary; indispensable 2) pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing 3) noting or containing an essence of a plant, drug, etc 4) being such by its very nature or in the highest sense;… …

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  • 30Element (criminal) — An element of a crime (collectively called elements of crime) is a basic set of common law principles regarding criminal liability that, with few exceptions, constitute the essential elements to prove that the defendant committed a crime under… …

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