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fundamentals

fundamentals is the plural of fundamental.

Meaning of fundamental

Noun

fundamental (plural fundamentals)

  1. (singular, generic) A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
    • Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government.1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 28
  2. (plural, generic) A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
    • one of the fundamentals of linear algebra
  3. The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
  4. The lowest partial of a complex tone.

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Noun

fundamentals pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The fundamental analysis data.
    • While this stock has been trading at a low P/E multiple lately, I think its fundamentals are sound, and consider it a good buy for long-term investors.
    • Fundamentals can be poor indicators of the future. Financial statements are backward-looking, meaning they tell you how a company did in the past, not necessarily how it will do in the future.2009, Matthew Krantz, Fundamental Analysis For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

Questions about fundamentals

What does fundamentals mean?
Fundamentals means the fundamental analysis data.
What is fundamentals the plural of?
Fundamentals is the plural of fundamental.
What part of speech is fundamentals?
Fundamentals is a noun.

Words near fundamentals in the dictionary

  1. fundamentalizes
  2. fundamentalizing
  3. fundamentall
  4. fundamentally
  5. fundamentalness
  6. fundamentals
  7. fundaments
  8. fundas
  9. fundatrices
  10. fundatrigenia
  11. fundatrigeniae

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