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Elementary vs Alimentary - What's the difference?

elementary | alimentary |

As adjectives the difference between elementary and alimentary

is that elementary is relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something while alimentary is of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.

elementary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  • Relating to an elementary school.
  • (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
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  • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
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    alimentary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion
  • nourishing; nutritious
  • Derived terms

    * alimentary canal