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simple

The English word “simple” has 30 meanings listed here.

  1. Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  2. Easy; not difficult.
  3. Without ornamentation; plain.
  4. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  5. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  6. Trivial; insignificant.
  7. Feeble-minded; foolish.
  8. Structurally uncomplicated.
  9. Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
  10. Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
  11. Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
  12. Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
  13. Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
  14. Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
  15. Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
  16. Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
  17. Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
  18. Not compound, but possibly lobed.
  19. Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
  20. Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
  21. Homogenous.
  22. Mere; not other than; being only.
  23. A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  24. A physician.
  25. A simple or atomic proposition.
  26. Something not mixed or compounded.
  27. A drawloom.
  28. Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  29. A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
  30. To gather simples, i.e. medicinal herbs.
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