fundamental

adjective as in basic, important

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central, constitutional, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, major, necessary, paramount, principal, radical, significant, structural, theoretical, underlying, vital

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bottom, cardinal, first, key, organic, original, primary, prime, primitive, requisite, supporting

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axiological, axiomatic, basal, bottom-line, constitutive, foundational, grassroots, meat-and-potatoes, primordial, rudimentary, substratal, substrative, sustaining, underived

noun as in basic, essential part

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bottom line, component, cornerstone, element, factor, foundation, law, principle

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ABCs, axiom, basis, constituent, guts, heart, nitty-gritty, rudiment, rule, theorem

Weak matches

brass tacks, coal-and-ice, principium, rock bottom, sine qua non

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A third paper in eLife explains how the model was then improved further to include the process of synaptic plasticity, the fundamental mechanism that allows us to learn new information.

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The research team hopes that some years in the future, these fundamental experiments will perhaps result in the development of useful methods for treating cancer.

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The study also provided new upper limits on the mass of neutrinos, the only fundamental particles whose masses have not yet been precisely measured.

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"The idea that we can take pictures of the universe and tackle these big, fundamental questions is mind-blowing."

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It took many years, and the process was scarred by generations of trial and error, but we Americans learned two fundamental lessons about those schools.

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