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element [n]

1)	an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

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component constituent factor ingredient

2)	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

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chemical_element

3)	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; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"

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component constituent

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part constitute accessory add-on audio auto_part crystal computer_hardware heating_element ingredient landside makings module pel retrofit spare spark_gap

4)	one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements"

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matter air fire earth ether water

5)	the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; "water is the element of fishes"

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environment

6)	the situation in which you are happiest and most effective; "in your element"

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situation

7)	a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. One of the items of data in an array.

2. One kind of node in an SGML, HTML, or XML document tree. An SGML element is typically represented by a start tag ("

") and an end tag ("

"). In some SGML implementations, some tags are omissible, as with "

" in HTML.

The start tag can contain attributes ("

"), which are an unordered set of key-value bindings for that element. Both the start tag and end tag for an element typically contain the "tag name" (also called the "GI" or generic identifier) for that element.

In XML, an element is always represented either by an explicit start tag and end tag, or by an empty element tag (" a dodad ").

Other kinds of SGML node are: a section of character data ("foo"), a comment (""), a markup declaration (""), or a processing instruction ("").

(2001-01-30)

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