A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
A form that lacks full or complex development.
I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
A body part that no longer has a function
To ground; to settle in first principles.
From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.
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