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How to pronounce element
Say it like this: /ˈɛləmənt/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does element mean?
nounOne of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
“Letters are the elements of written language.”
Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms
verbTo compound (something) out of elements.
“elemented bodies”
To constitute and be the elements of (something).
“His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.”
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