fundamental adj

1 serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, key, primal]

2 being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incompatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" [syn: rudimentary, underlying]

3 far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance"; "profound social changes" [syn: profound] n : the lowest tone of a harmonic series [syn: fundamental frequency, first harmonic]

English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

Translations

Adjective

1. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.

Derived terms

• fundamentalism
• fundamentalist
• fundamental analysis

Translations

German

Adjective

1. fundamental

Synonyms

• grundlegend

Derived terms

• Fundamentalismus, Fundamentalist

Fundamental may refer to:

• Fundamental frequency,a concept in music or phonetics, often referred to as simply a "fundamental".
• Fundamentalism, the belief in, and usually the strict adherence to, the simplistic or "fundamental" ideas based on faith of a system of thought.Interestingly not based on the fundamental principles or objectives of a system. i.e. following the word and not the spirit of a law or system.
• Any of a number of fundamental theorems identified in mathematics, such as
  • The fundamental theorem of algebra, a theorem regarding the factorization of polynomials.
  • The fundamental theorem of arithmetic, a theorem regarding prime factorization.
• Fundamental analysis, a method that uses financial and economic analysis to predict the movement of security prices such as bond prices, but more commonly stock prices.

In music:

• Fundamental (Bonnie Raitt album)
• Fundamental (Pet Shop Boys album)
• Fundamental (Puya album)
• Fun-Da-Mental, a rap group.

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