(art) An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.

Synonym of fundamental (“the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform”)

plural of fundamental frequency

Synonym of pure science

(biology) The full range of conditions and resources in which an organism free of interference from other species could survive and reproduce.

plural of fundamental niche

Synonym of base unit (“unit of measurement”).

(differential geometry) the Riemannian metric for 2-dimensional manifolds, i.e. given a surface with regular parametrization x(u,v), the first fundamental form is a set of three functions, {E, F, G}, dependent on u and v, which give information about local intrinsic curvature of the surface. These functions are given by

plural of algebraic fundamental group

(algebraic geometry) A group which is an analogue for schemes of the fundamental group for topological spaces.