One of the entries of a matrix.
A small part of the whole.
A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
One of the objects in a set.
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.
A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.
A unit of education covering a single topic.
An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication.
A fractal element.
A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (called also mod or music module).
A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.