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Fundamentals   /fˌəndəmˈɛntəlz/  /fˌəndəmˈɛnəlz/   Listen
Fundamentals

noun
1.
Principles from which other truths can be derived.  Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle.  "Let's get down to basics"



Fundamental

noun
1.
Any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business.
2.
The lowest tone of a harmonic series.  Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency.



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... church located not far from the head of Main Street extended in Weston. A local historian believes also that one Doctor Gordon's daughter taught in the same school. It does not appear that Owens was a man of exceptional intellectual attainment, but he had well mastered the fundamentals of education when working in the printing office of Horace Greeley in New York, where he learned to manifest interest in the man far down, and to make sacrifices for his cause. His work was so successful that the school was later established as a public institution ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

... so as to be able to speak and preach in it fluently. There is no Christian here who understands the language thoroughly; those who have lived here long can use a kind of jargon just sufficient to carry on trade with it, but they do not understand the fundamentals of the language. I am making a vocabulary of the Mahakuaas' language, and when I am among them I ask them how things are called; but as they are very stupid, I sometimes cannot make them understand what I want. Moreover when they tell me, one ...
— Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 • Various

... monopolies. How those who have been fighting monopoly through all their career can reconcile the continuation of the battle under the banner of the very men they have been fighting, I cannot imagine. I challenge the program in its fundamentals as not a progressive program at all. Why did Mr. Gary suggest this very method when he was at the head of the Steel Trust? Why is this very method commended here, there, and everywhere by the men who are interested in the maintenance of the present economic system ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... traditions; their value no one disputes. But for purposes of his own Whitman ignores them all; he lets in upon us the free and maybe raw air of the great out-of-doors of absolute nature; his standards are not found inside of any four walls; he contemplates life, and would quicken it in its fundamentals; his survey is from a plane whence our arts and refinements and petty distinctions disappear. He sees the evil of the world no less necessary than the good; he sees death as a part of life itself; he sees the body and the soul as one; he sees the spiritual always issuing from the material; he sees ...
— Whitman - A Study • John Burroughs

... as a difficult operation in grape-growing. But once a few fundamentals are grasped, grape-pruning is not difficult. There is much less perplexity in pruning the grape than in pruning tree-fruits. Pruning follows accepted patterns in every grape region, and when the pattern is learned the difficulties are easily overcome. The inexperienced are confused by the ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick


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