essential vs simplex

essential

adj
  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Necessary. 

  • Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 

  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 

  • Really existing; existent. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 

  • Idiopathic. 

noun
  • A necessary ingredient. 

  • A fundamental ingredient. 

simplex

adj
  • Single, simple; not complex. 

  • Unidirectional. 

noun
  • A monomorphemic word, one without affixes. 

  • An analogue in a space of arbitrary dimensionality of the triangle or tetrahedron; the convex hull of n+1 linearly independent points in n-dimensional space; in other words, the triangle, tetrahedron etc., generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions. 

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