fundament

1 the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, base, foundation, groundwork, cornerstone]

2 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

3 lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: foundation, base, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure]

English

Etymology

From fundamentum “foundation” (from fundare “to lay the bottom, to found”) via fundement and fondement, fondement, and fundament, fundement, and fondement.

Noun

1. foundation
2. The part of the body upon which one sits; the buttocks; specifically, the anus.
3. underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system

Fundamental may refer to:

• Fundamental frequency,a concept in music or phonetics, often referred to as simply a "fundamental".
• Fundamentalism, the belief in, and usually the strict adherence to, the simplistic or "fundamental" ideas based on faith of a system of thought.Interestingly not based on the fundamental principles or objectives of a system. i.e. following the word and not the spirit of a law or system.
• Any of a number of fundamental theorems identified in mathematics, such as
  • The fundamental theorem of algebra, a theorem regarding the factorization of polynomials.
  • The fundamental theorem of arithmetic, a theorem regarding prime factorization.
• Fundamental analysis, a method that uses financial and economic analysis to predict the movement of security prices such as bond prices, but more commonly stock prices.

In music:

• Fundamental (Bonnie Raitt album)
• Fundamental (Pet Shop Boys album)
• Fundamental (Puya album)
• Fun-Da-Mental, a rap group.

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