Rudiment Synonyms

ro͝o'də-mənt

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Synonyms for Rudiment

essential
Something necessary or fundamental; indispensable, inherent, or basic feature or principle
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Often used in plural: base
A fundamental principle or underlying concept.
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fundamental
A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra.
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fundament
A fundamental principle or underlying concept.
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element
A part of a set or configuration, as a side of a triangle or a number in a matrix
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abc
The fundamentals of any subject. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
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abcs
(Plural only) Letters, writing, especially as a skill.
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foundation
The fundamental principle on which something is founded; basis
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basis
Regular frequency
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cornerstone
A stone that forms part of the corner of a building; esp., a foundation stone of this kind, often inscribed, laid at a ceremony that marks the beginning of building
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root
A lower or supporting part; base
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Often used in plural: basic
A fundamental irreducible constituent of a whole.
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first rudiment
the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
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first-principle
A basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.
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alphabet
The definition of an alphabet is a system of letters of a language written or spoken in their proper order.
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Words Related to Rudiment

over
Something in addition; excess; surplus
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part
A role:
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rudiments
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Rudiment Sentence Examples

  • The fibula is reduced to a mere rod-like rudiment of the upper end.

  • As in other Gastropoda Anisopleura, this shell-sac may abnormally develop a plug of chitinous matter, but normally it flattens out and disappears, whilst the cap-like rudiment of the permanent shell is shed out from the dome-like surface of the visceral hump, in the centre of which the shell-sac existed for a brief period.

  • PrGabp l, Rudiment of the appendage of the praegenital somite which disappears.

  • Spengel has, however, in a most ingenious way shown that these bodies are the representatives of the typical pair of ctenidia, here reduced to a mere rudiment.

  • One of Harvey's prime objects is to defend and establish, on the basis of direct observation, the opinion already held by Aristotle, that, in the higher animals at any rate, the formation of the new organism by the process of generation takes place, not suddenly, by simultaneous accretion of rudiments of all or the most important of the organs of the adult, nor by sudden metamorphosis of a formative substance into a miniature of the whole, which subsequently grows, but by epigenesis, or successive differentiation of a relatively homogeneous rudiment into the parts and structures which are characteristic of the adult.

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