fundamental

Plural: fundamentals

Noun

• any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business
  • "fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure"
• the lowest tone of a harmonic series
• A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
• A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
• The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
• The lowest partial of a complex tone.

Adjective Satellite

• serving as an essential component
  • "an example that was fundamental to the argument"
  • "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
• being or involving basic facts or principles
  • "the fundamental laws of the universe"
  • "a fundamental incomatibility between them"
• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
  • "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"
  • "the book underwent fundamental changes"
  • "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance"

Adj

• Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
• Essential; extremely important.

Examples

• a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom; a fundamental element; fundamental principle; fundamental law
• A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
• one of the fundamentals of linear algebra

Synonyms

cardinal, central, first harmonic, fundamental frequency, key, primal, profound, rudimentary, underlying, elementary, groundlaying

Related Words

fundament

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