Element
(n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
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 |
Element
(n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything |
Element
(n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole |
Element
(n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber. |
Element
(n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed. |
Element
(n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered |
Element
(n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former. |
Element
(n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression. |
Element
(n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based |
Element
(n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art |
Element
(n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question |
Element
(n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers |
Element
(n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire |
Element
(n.) the conditions and movements of the air. |
Element
(n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury. |
Element
(n.) The whole material composing the world. |
Element
(n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper. |
Element
(v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles. |
Element
(v. t.) To constitute |
Queen truss
() A truss framed with queen-posts |
Truss
(n.) A bundle |
Truss
(n.) A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction |
Truss
(n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes. |
Truss
(n.) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants. |
Truss
(n.) The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast. |
Truss
(n.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style. |
Truss
(n.) To bind or pack close |
Truss
(n.) To take fast hold of |
Truss
(n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces. |
Truss
(n.) To skewer |
Truss
(n.) To execute by hanging |
component
constituent
element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
corbel
truss | (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) |
detector
sensor
sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
| heating element | the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat |
| logic element | an electronic device that performs an elementary logic operation |
pixel
pel
picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
threshold element
threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
| truss | a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure |
| truss | (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt, worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure |
| truss bridge | a bridge supported by trusses |
| plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story |
component
constituent
element
factor
ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
| element | the most favorable environment for a plant or animal, water is the element of fishes |
| elements | violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements), they felt the full fury of the elements |
identity identity element
identity operator | an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates, the identity under numerical multiplication is |
| element | a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone |
| element of a cone | a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base |
| element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
| element | the situation in which you are happiest and most effective, in your element |
chemical element
element | any of the more than known substances (of which occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
| transuranic element | any element having an atomic number greater than (which is the atomic number of uranium), all are radioactive |
rare earth
rare-earth element
lanthanoid
lanthanide
lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |
metallic element
metal | any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
bohrium
Bh
element
atomic number | a transuranic element |
darmstadtium
Ds
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
dubnium
Db
hahnium
element
atomic number | a transuranic element |
hassium
Hs
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
meitnerium
Mt
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
roentgenium
Rg
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
rutherfordium
Rf
unnilquadium
Unq
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized |
seaborgium
Sg
element
atomic number | a transuranic element |
ununbium
Uub
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
ununhexium
Uuh
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
ununpentium
Uup
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
ununquadium
Uuq
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
ununtrium
Uut
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
| element | one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe, the alchemists believed that there were four elements |
| trace element | an element that occurs at very small quantities in the body but is nonetheless important for many biological processes |
| truss | support structurally, truss the roofs, trussed bridges |
tie down
tie up
bind truss | secure with or as if with ropes, tie down the prisoners, tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed |
| truss | tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it |