A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
one of the fundamentals of linear algebra
The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
Essential; extremely important.
a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom; a fundamental element; fundamental principle; fundamental law
From Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
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