Rudiment vs Nascent - What's the difference?
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A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
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Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
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(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
Emerging; just coming into existence.
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(mathematics, obsolete) Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
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Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
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(chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
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As a noun rudiment
is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).As an adjective nascent is
emerging; just coming into existence.rudiment
English
(wikipedia rudiment)Noun
(en noun)- We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
Hypernyms
* (biology) vestigialityDerived terms
* rudimental * rudimentaryExternal links
* * * ----nascent
English
Adjective
(-)- India has a nascent space industry.