plural of mobile genetic element

(grammar) In certain approaches to grammar, a part of the sentence, classified as one of subject, predicate, object, predicative and adverbial.

(inorganic chemistry, physics) main group element

(mathematics) Any of a finite number of discrete elements of a system, interconnected at discrete nodes, used to model a physical system

(geology) An element which is not a trace element in a given context, and which is present in significant quantity.

An identification such as a data element name / A clear data element definition / One or more representation terms / Optional enumerated values

(chemistry) Any of the group of metallic elements that have an incomplete inner (d) electron shell, having multiple valencies and forming coloured compounds and stable complex ions; the elements from scandium through copper, and those lying below them in the periodic table.

(linear algebra) An element on the main diagonal of a square matrix, that is, an element in row k and column k where k is an integer between 1 and the number of rows (or columns) in the matrix.

(chemistry) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction. Chemical elements consist of atoms which have the same number of protons.

(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which when applied, in either order, to any other element via a binary operation yields the other element.