fundamental nature
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffundamentalandnature
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fundamental
adjective
uk/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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nature
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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(Definition offundamentalandnaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But are these two standards of an equallyfundamentalnature?
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It is easy to forget thefundamentalnatureof comfort.
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A resolution of such divergent views may clarify thefundamentalnatureof these processes.
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Thefundamentalnatureof life as a chemical system : the part played by inorganic elements.
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I do not accept super valuationism as an account of thefundamentalnatureof vagueness.
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The debate about thefundamentalnatureof language has involved mostly theoretical linguists and experimental psychologists.
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Any analysis of this subject must begin by considering thefundamentalnatureof answering as a type of social action.
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The fact that the percept transitions so readily into depth suggests thefundamentalnatureof the depth dimension for perception.
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But there are political problems of the mostfundamentalnature.
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This is, indeed, a war of afundamentalnature.
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It is an error of afundamentalnature.
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Many of them are of a mostfundamentalnature.
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The amendment is of a fairlyfundamentalnature.
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These proposals are not of afundamentalnature.
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It is about thefundamentalnatureof the tax.
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That is thefundamentalnatureof this world crisis.
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I have objections of a morefundamentalnature.
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Both aim to understand thefundamentalnatureof language so there ought to be a very close working association between them.
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Because her decisions on his behalf are based on this understanding, she interprets thefundamentalnature and purpose of the directive as being outcome oriented.
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With respect to dealing with these catastrophes, thefundamentalnatureof crises is that one is never fully able to prevent or control them.
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For example, the designers may want some understanding of thefundamentalnatureand limitations of various solution fragments, thereby enabling them to opportunistically create new designs.
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This suggests that higher-order functions are of afundamentalnatureand their elimination from functional programs may require more sophisticated extensions of the above three techniques.
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Those were constitutional changes of afundamentalnature, but there are no such changes here.
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That is a red herring to distract us from thefundamentalnatureof this important debate.
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