fundamental
B2Academic AWL-5Frequent NGSL-2UK /ˌfʌndəˈmentl/US /ˌfʌndəˈmentl/
Meaning
adjective
serious and very important; affecting the most central and important parts of something
“the fundamental principles of scientific method”
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“or impossible to express using fundamental first principles.”
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“really where I learned the fundamentals”
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