Elementary

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Elementary:

• Elementary education, consist of the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood.
• Fiction
  • Sherlock Holmes: "Elementary, my dear Watson"
  • Elementary, Dear Data is the third episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Physics
  • In particle physics, an elementary particle is a particle of which other, larger particles are composed.
  • The elementary charge (symbol e or sometimes q) is the electric charge carried by a single proton, or equivalently, the negative of the electric charge carried by a single electron.
• Mathematics
  • Elementary arithmetic is the most basic kind of mathematics: it concerns the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  • Elementary algebra is the most basic form of algebra taught to students who are presumed to have no knowledge of mathematics beyond the basic principles of arithmetic.
  • In computational complexity theory, the complexity class ELEMENTARY is the union of the classes in the exponential hierarchy.
  • An elementary reflector is a vector that implements reflection (mathematics).
  • Elementary symmetric polynomials are basic building block for symmetric polynomials.
  • Elementary matrix transformations or elementary row and column transformations are linear transformations which are normally used in Gaussian elimination to solve a set of linear equations.
  • In probability theory, an elementary event is a subset of a sample space that contains only one element.
  • In differential algebra, an elementary function is a function built from a finite number of exponentials, logarithms, constants, one variable, and roots of equations through composition and combinations using the four elementary operations (+ − × ÷).
  • Elementary class
  • Elementary embedding
  • Elementary group theory
  • Elementary substructure