Rudiment vs Theorem - What's the difference?
rudiment | theorem | Related terms |
A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
* Shakespeare
Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
* Milton
* I. Taylor
(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.
(mathematics) A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions''. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called ''lemmas
(mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true; as, (as which it was known long before it was proved in the 1990s.)
(logic) a syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system
Rudiment is a related term of theorem.
As nouns the difference between rudiment and theorem
is that rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural) while theorem is theorem.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.
