Usually means: Basic, essential element or principle.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word fundamental:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fundamental: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fundamental: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fundamental: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fundamental: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fundamental: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fundamental, fundamental: Wordnik
  7. fundamental: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fundamental: Wiktionary
  9. fundamental: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fundamental: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fundamental: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fundamental: Dictionary.com
  13. fundamental: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fundamental: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fundamental (Bonnie Raitt album), Fundamental (Mental As Anything album), Fundamental (Pet Shop Boys album), Fundamental (Puya album), Fundamental (music), Fundamental: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fundamental: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fundamental: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fundamental: Rhymezone
  19. fundamental, fundamental: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fundamental: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fundamental: Free Dictionary
  22. fundamental: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fundamental: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. fundamental: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fundamental: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fundamental: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Fundamental: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (generic, singular) A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
noun:  (generic, plural) A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
noun:  (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
noun:  (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
adjective:  Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
adjective:  Essential; extremely important.

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