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What does elementary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word elementary? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  2. Relating to an elementary school.
  3. (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
  4. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
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She became involved in Scherenschnitte while teaching elementary students in 1953.
I was in my senior year in secondary high school, my sister was a senior in junior high school and the twins were in elementary school.
One of the bizarre paradoxes of quantum mechanics is that elementary particles can exist in two or more states at the same time.
True elementary arithmetic consists of all true well-formed sentences of this restricted language.
The foundation conducted the survey among 1,501 teachers at elementary and junior high schools in June.
Simplistic though it may seem, an elementary explanation may help to account for the gradual shift away from Augustinianism.

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