Meaning

1. element (small part of the whole)
2. member; dregs (person or group with negative traits)
3. element (one of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air)
4. element (infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential)
5. elements (basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments)
6. (obsolete) element (any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons)
7. substance