fundamental
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fundamental /fʌndəˈmɛnt(ə)l/
▶adjective of or serving as a foundation or core; of central importance. ▶noun
- 1 a central or primary rule or principle.
- 2 Music a fundamental note, tone, or frequency.
– derivatives
fundamentality noun,
fundamentally adverb.
fundamentality noun,
fundamentally adverb.
'fundamental' also found in these Oxford entries:
basic
- bedrock
- blood
- bottom
- bottom line
- cardinal
- constitution
- degree
- dimension
- element
- elemental
- essential
- f
- first-order
- first principles
- foot
- fundamental frequency
- fundamentalism
- fundamental note
- fundamental tone
- fundamental unit
- harmonic
- harmonic series
- integral
- logocentric
- meat
- metre
- molecule
- natural
- overtone
- paradigm shift
- pedal note
- philosophy
- phonology
- Planck's constant
- plank
- plus ça change
- principle
- radical
- reductionism
- root
- Salic law
- ultimate
- verity
- voluntarism
