fundamental

1. 1.

   any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business

   “fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure”

   Broaderfactor
2. 2.

   the lowest tone of a harmonic series

   Synonymsfundamental frequencyfirst harmonic

   Broaderharmonic

Other forms of fundamental

plural

fundamentals·

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.

Questions about fundamental

What does fundamental mean?

fundamental means "serving as an essential component". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fundamental?

fundamental has 4 syllables: fun-da-men-tal. The stress falls on "men". In IPA it is /ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl/.

What is another word for fundamental?

Close synonyms include cardinal, central, key, primal, rudimentary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fundamental a common word?

fundamental is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fundamental?

18 words rhyme with fundamental. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.