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essential

/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A necessary ingredient.
  2. A fundamental ingredient.
  3. Necessary.
  4. Very important; of high importance.
  5. Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
  6. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
  7. Really existing; existent.
  8. 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.

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