fundamental role

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandrole

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/
us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/
us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition offundamentalandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffundamental role

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This new notion will play afundamentalrolein our main results.
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Despite thefundamentalrolephonetic representations play in language acquisition, there has been very little research on their development in a bilingual context.
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Contrasting social norms have long been suspected of also playing afundamentalrolein the evolution of social benefits, and notably unemployment benefits.
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These effects are predicted to play afundamentalrole, depending on material conductivity, and even to be the major limiting factor in fast electron propagation.
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Two notions play afundamentalrolein our narrative: sparsity and oracle inequalities.
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The concept of a solitary wave plays afundamentalrolein nonlinear wave theory.
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The paper argues that the study has identified language features which play afundamentalrolein communicative repertoire.
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But whilst each country study underlines thefundamentalroleof systemic factors, the impact of the domestic side is fully integrated within them.
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Nonetheless, we suggest that tree size may play afundamentalrolein the life history and regeneration ecology of this species.
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Much research over the last decade has provided clear evidence for afundamentalroleof phonological coding in skilled adult reading.
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These functions play afundamentalrolein linearized shell theory.
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It would acknowledge thefundamentalrolethat caregiving plays in children's lives and would give appropriate recognition to it and to those who provide it.
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In the study of maps of the circle afundamentalroleis played by a quantity called the rotation number, which we recall.
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Second, hippocampal rhythms have afundamentalrolein memory trace formation and consolidation.
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Freely generated structures play afundamentalrolein mathematics and computer science.
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Polarity in types plays afundamentalrolein the analysis, which is elucidated via examples.
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Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors play afundamentalrolein regulating cellular proliferation and often show tumour suppressor actions.
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On instrumental egalitarianism the ideal of equality does not play afundamentalrolein one's account of the moral realm.
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Computational simulation has afundamentalrolein supporting experimentation of sociocognitive interactions.
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With invariant manifolds, the existence of homoclinic orbits plays afundamentalrolein the development of the chaotic behaviour observed in many systems.
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