Usually means: Necessary, fundamental to core function.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. essential: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. essential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. essential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. essential: Collins English Dictionary
  5. essential: Vocabulary.com
  6. Essential, essential: Wordnik
  7. essential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. essential: Wiktionary
  9. essential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. essential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. essential: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. essential: Dictionary.com
  13. essential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Essential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. essential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. essential: Rhymezone
  18. essential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. essential: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. essential: Free Dictionary
  21. essential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. essential: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. essential: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. essential: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. essential: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essential: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. essential: Medical dictionary
  5. Essential: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essential: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Necessary.
adjective:  Very important; of high importance.
adjective:  (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
adjective:  Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
adjective:  Really existing; existent.
adjective:  (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
adjective:  (medicine) Idiopathic.
adjective:  Having the nature of essence; not physical.
noun:  A necessary ingredient.
noun:  A fundamental ingredient.

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