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What (who) is element - definition
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element
(elements)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The different elements of something are the different parts it contains.
The exchange of prisoners of war was one of the key elements of the UN's peace plan.
= constituent, component
N-COUNT: usu pl, usu with supp
2.
A particular element of a situation, activity, or process is an important quality or feature that it has or needs.
Fitness has now become an important element in our lives.
= factor
N-COUNT: with supp
3.
When you talk about elements within a society or organization, you are referring to groups of people who have similar aims, beliefs, or habits.
...criminal elements within the security forces.
...the hooligan element.
N-COUNT: usu pl, supp N
4.
If something has an element of a particular quality or emotion, it has a certain amount of this quality or emotion.
These reports clearly contain elements of propaganda.
N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n
5.
An element is a substance such as gold, oxygen, or carbon that consists of only one type of atom.
? compound
N-COUNT
6.
The element in an electric fire or water heater is the metal part which changes the electric current into heat.
N-COUNT: usu sing
7.
You can refer to the weather, especially wind and rain, as the elements.
The area where most refugees are waiting is exposed to the elements.
N-PLURAL: the N
8.
If you say that someone is in their element, you mean that they are in a situation they enjoy.
My stepmother was in her element, organizing everything...
PHRASE: v-link PHR
element
¦ noun
1. a basic constituent participle
an aspect: an element of danger.
a group of a particular kind within a larger group: right-wing elements.
2. (also chemical element) each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be chemically interconverted or broken down, each consisting of atoms with a particular atomic number.
3. any of the four substances (earth, water, air, and fire) regarded as the fundamental constituents of the world in ancient and medieval philosophy.
4. (the elements) bad weather.
5. one's natural or preferred environment: she was in her element.
6. a part in an electric device consisting of a wire through which an electric current is passed to provide heat.
7. (elements) (in church use) the bread and wine of the Eucharist.
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. elementum 'principle, rudiment'.
element
n. 1) an essential requirement to a cause of action (the right to bring a lawsuit to enforce a particular right). Each cause of action (negligence, breach of contract, trespass, assault, etc.) is made up of a basic set of elements which must be alleged and proved. Each charge of a criminal offense requires allegation and proof of its elements. 2) essential requirement of a zoning general plan.
See also: cause of action crime general plan zoning
Examples of use of element
1. This is a political side of the holistic strategy, the holistic strategy being the military arm being used, a political element, an administrative element and a reconstruction element.
2. "A structure affiliated to Basic Element has made the request," the Basic Element spokesman said.
3. "This is a new element which has emerged –– a more dangerous element because it has roots in the people.
4. If the skater performs the element perfectly, he or she will receive all the points for that element.
5. "This is a new element, a more dangerous element, because it (the Taliban) has its roots in the people.