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

In the simplest kind of temporal rhythm, therefore, where the beats are, say, drum-taps of equal force, the primary element is time.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin