Definition of element

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Element (n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen..

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Hemapophysis :: Hemapophysis (n.) The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib..
Element :: Element (n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire.
Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only
Wasium :: Wasium (n.) A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium..
Organogen :: Organogen (n.) A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc..
Thomsonianism :: Thomsonianism (n.) An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts..
Cell :: Cell (n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed..
Ilmenium :: Ilmenium (n.) A supposed element claimed to have been discovered by R.Harmann.
Base :: Base (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids..
Glucina :: Glucina (n.) A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine..
Beryllium :: Beryllium (n.) A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
Magnetograph :: Magnetograph (n.) An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements..
Compound :: Compound (v. t.) To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine..
Transelement :: Transelement (v. t.) Alt. of Transelementat.
Element :: Element (n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression.
Elemental :: Elemental (a.) Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
Arseniureted :: Arseniureted (a.) Combined with arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen..
Polysynthesis :: Polysynthesis (n.) The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.
Hydriodic :: Hydriodic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and iodine; -- said of an acid produced by the combination of these elements..
Stercorarian :: Stercoranist (n.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient..
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