Assertion: rudiment | /r/HasProperty | fundamental element
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text: rudiment: a fundamental element, principle, or skill, as of a field of learning; the first principles or elementary stages of a subject.
text: As nouns the difference between fundamental and rudiment is that fundamental is a leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra while rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).