primary element
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Networks of microtubules grow like tree roots into branching systems that form a primary element of the cytoskeleton that gives cells their shape and enables them to divide.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024
In Izzard’s mind, there was always going to be a stage version as a companion piece — though she had envisioned the audiobook as the primary element.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022
Its primary element is a low, semicircular stone wall with 19 names and a series of dates inscribed on it at regular intervals.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2021
In a Katz painting, style—the way it’s painted—is the primary element.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018
By means of this primary element, compounded in various ways, Adam Smith explains all the phenomena of the moral consciousness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
