• noun:   the most favorable environment for a plant or animal

  Example: "Water is the element of fishes"

• noun:   a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
• noun:   the situation in which you are happiest and most effective

  Example: "In your element"

• noun:   one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe

  Example: "The alchemists believed that there were four elements"

• noun:   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
• noun:   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

  Example: "A component or constituent element of a system"

• noun:   an abstract part of something

  Example: "The grammatical elements of a sentence"

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