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Fundamentals   /fˌəndəmˈɛntəlz/  /fˌəndəmˈɛnəlz/   Listen
Fundamentals

noun
1.
Principles from which other truths can be derived.  Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle.  "Let's get down to basics"



Fundamental

noun
1.
Any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business.
2.
The lowest tone of a harmonic series.  Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency.



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"Fundamentals" Quotes from Famous Books



... could advance—as an idea—hardly any further. For with all the intrepidity and passion of the later Eighteenth Century in its search for beauty, for all the magic-making of convenience and ingenuity of the Nineteenth Century, the fundamentals have changed but little. And now we of the Twentieth Century can only add material comforts and an expression of our personality. We raise the house beyond the reach of squalor, we give it measured heat, we give it water in abundance and perfect sanitation and ...
— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe

... representative, the private opinions of the electors are not to be placed entirely in abeyance. Deference to mental superiority is not to go the length of self-annihilation—abnegation of any personal opinion. But when the difference does not relate to the fundamentals of politics, however decided the elector may be in his own sentiments, he ought to consider that when an able man differs from him there is at least a considerable chance of his being in the wrong, and that even ...
— Considerations on Representative Government • John Stuart Mill

... church or temple. The community may maintain itself in a state of complete isolation, but more usually there are tracks or roads to the centres of adjacent communities, and a certain drift of travel, a certain trade in non-essential things. In the fundamentals of life this normal community is independent and self-subsisting, and where it is not beginning to be modified by the novel forces of the new times it produces its own food and drink, its own clothing, and largely intermarries ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... the plan of purchasing two Negroes named Harry and Andrew, and of qualifying them by thorough instruction in the principles of Christianity and the fundamentals of education, to serve as schoolmasters to their people. Under the direction of Rev. Mr. Garden, the missionary who had directed the training of these young men, a building costing about three hundred and eight pounds was erected in ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson

... glad you answered; you are so calm and natural you put me to shame. What a ranter I am! We are often out of sympathy. But in fundamentals we may always be together ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence


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