▸ adjective: Necessary. ▸ adjective: Very important; of high importance. ▸ adjective: (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. ▸ adjective: Being in the basic form; showing its essence. ▸ adjective: Really existing; existent. ▸ adjective: (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. ▸ adjective: (medicine) Idiopathic. ▸ adjective: Having the nature of essence; not physical. ▸ noun: A necessary ingredient. ▸ noun: A fundamental ingredient.
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