# elementation
## English
### Etymology

From element +‎ -ation.

### Noun

elementation (uncountable)
* Instruction in the elements or first principles.
** 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana:For this latter certainly contained the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Logos; and, therefore, it seems likely that the present Apsosles' creed was an introductory, and, as it were, alphabetical, creed for young catechumens in their first elementation.
** 1846, Hamon L'Estrange, The Alliance of Divine Offices, page 141:No, my only design is to commend the other duty to more frequent practice: a duty without whose pre-elementation sermons themselves edify very little .
** 1891, G. Stanley Hall, “Educational Reforms”, in The Pedagogical Seminary, volume 1, page 12:To plan this extension of knowledge to mere juvenile rudiments is the work of a master, and in any other hands elementation and methods are enemies of learning, so sterilizing, so antiseptic to any future contagion of knowledge that it is impossible to overestimate the terrible mental and even moral mutilation they may inflict .
* The manner in which something is divided into basic elements.
** 1971, Michael Kennedy, Proceedings of the Kentucky Workshop on Computer Applications to Environmental Design, page 150:Through a systematic elementation of design solutions a large variety of alternatives can be accomplished by manipulating the elements in different combinations.
** 2017, Ettore Carruccio, Isabel Quigly, Mathematics and Logic in History and in Contemporary Thought, page 349:The origin of the contradiction lies in this, that we think a process of elementation is rigidly fixed and admit that this process applies to every aggregate, in particular to E: but there is no contradiction if E cannot be elemented with this process.'
** 2020, David Degenhardt, Temperature-dependent Deformation and Fracture Behavior of a Talcum-filled Co-polymer, page 86:In Figure 6.19, the 0.5 mm volume element discretization is compared to the elementation using 2mm shell elements. Even with the coarse shell elementation, the fracture location in the rib is detected as critical, however, because the strains are not localizing enough in the sharp edge, the first cracks occur at the position close to the punch, rather than in the edge as in the experiment.
* The state or act of elementing; the combination of elements to create something.
** 1971, Charles Dillon, The Fluorination of Body Water, page 24:The normal process of elementation is a deposit of the relatively insoluble combinations of these elements by a process of precipitation.
** 1978, Joseph M. Victor, Charles de Bovelles, 1479-1553: An Intellectual Biography, page 111:The elementation of matter was its complete distentio to the plenitude and filling of the entire sensible region. Thus it was impossible to believe that a vacuum could possibly have existed and because no vacuum could have existed it followed that matter and elementation must have been created simultaneously.
** 2012, C.C. Baniotopoulos, F. Wald, The Paramount Role of Joints into the Reliable Response of Structures, page 289:Elementation depends on bending in this part; mesh convergence study is necessary.
* Coming into existence as an element; substantiation; incorporation.
** 1881, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, page 128:This grand event took place (p. 259) "by the voice of his mighty energy that is, by its melodious sweetness, which was scarcely heard when lo! the dead gleamed into life, and the non-entity which had neither place nor existence flashed like lightning into elementation, and rejoiced into life; and the congealed, motionless shiver warmed into living existence, the destitute nothing rejoiced into being a thousand times more quickly than the lightning reaches its home.
** 1980, Emulio-Ree Ouou, History of South Malaita, Origin of Livings, Centre and Diameter of the Universe, page 118:When such power met elementation the result was fire started for the manufacturing of the original power together with elementation.
** 2012, TJ Morris, A Paranormal History Guide:However, all elementation at that time was still within a higher dimensional realm than it is today.