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say it: EL-uh-muhnt
element is a noun meaning "an abstract part of something". It carries 7 recorded senses.
an abstract part of something
“jealousy was a component of his character”
“two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony”
“the grammatical elements of a sentence”
“a key factor in her success”
“humor: an effective ingredient of a speech”
an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
“spare components for cars”
“a component or constituent element of a system”
any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
“water is the element of fishes”
a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for element come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.