essential
Pronunciation: /ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/
The English word “essential” has 10 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Really existing; existent.
- Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- Idiopathic.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
noun
Etymology
From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).
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