Dictionary definition · fundamental
noun
- any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business"fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure"
- the lowest tone of a harmonic series
adjective
- serving as an essential component"a cardinal rule"
- being or involving basic facts or principles"the fundamental laws of the universe"
- far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something"the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).