fundamental concept

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandconcept

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition offundamentalandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This basic fact is essential to determining underlying forms, and is afundamentalconceptof phonology.
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In fact, what is in question is what position we should adopt when faced with afundamentalconcept.
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One final concern we wish to raise addresses thefundamentalconceptof a gestural theory of language.
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What is thefundamentalconceptof his new algorithm?
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Thefundamentalconceptthat gives the basis of both logics is the introduction of suitable auxiliary tiles, modelling all the consistent rearrangements of the interfaces.
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By removing this veryfundamentalconceptof self-identity, repressors attempt to reach the ultimate point in the destruction of victims' language.
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In classical utilitarianism, thefundamentalconceptis utility.
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Causation is a necessary andfundamentalconceptto act and live by for human beings.
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It is even doubtful if one of the two rivals finally will be able to maintain itself as afundamentalconcept.
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The mostfundamentalconceptof self-system theory is thus removed from objective measurement.
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Moreover, they are afundamentalconceptin computing.
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He furthered the appeal to medical expertise, and turned the imagination into afundamentalconceptfor defining the boundaries of the supernatural.
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As noted above, nofundamentalconceptof the macroeconomy existed, hence how could institutions be constructed to regulate it?
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Thefundamentalconceptof 'sound object' that he forges at that period indicates his desire to obtain fundamental material that can be manipulated and combined as instrumental sounds are.
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The policy conversation that ensued was the setting for a remarkable nonjudicial review, and effective reversal, of a decade-old case law through reassertion of afundamentalconceptof bioethics.
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The philosophers who initiated the so-called "linguistic turn" from the examination of "ideas" to the analysis of language believed that meaning was a morefundamentalconceptthan truth.
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For a time, some members of the combinatorial school believed that the concept of combination is thefundamentalconceptof mathematics, more basic even than the concept of number.
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Interoperability has therefore become afundamentalconceptfor information and telecommunications networks.
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