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element

English

🔊 the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
“water is the element of fishes”
🔊 a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
🔊 the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
“in your element”
🔊 one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
“the alchemists believed that there were four elements”
🔊 any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
🔊 an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up
“spare components for cars”
🔊 an abstract part of something
“jealousy was a component of his character”