Meaning of simple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. simple (uncomplicated)
2. Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
3. Easy; not difficult.
4. mere, ordinary
5. simple, single (not divided into parts)
6. Without ornamentation; plain.
7. simple-minded, stupid
8. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
9. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
10. insipid, flavorless
11. Trivial; insignificant.
    archaic
12. Feeble-minded; foolish.
    colloquial, euphemistic
13. Structurally uncomplicated.
14. Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
15. Being non-trivial, and admitting no proper non-trivial quotients.
    broadly
16. Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
    broadly
17. Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
    broadly
18. Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
    broadly
19. Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
    broadly, universal
20. Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
    broadly
21. Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
22. Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
23. Not compound, but possibly lobed.
24. Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
25. Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
26. Homogenous.
27. Mere; not other than; being only.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

“Primitive people, colossally ignorant of the cause of disease and of curative processes, attributed to supernatural agencies any causes and effects for which their simple minds could give no natural explanations.”

“The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).”

“There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.”

“Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.”

“Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.”

“Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?”

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding, and giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.”

“Garak: Who would want to kill me, a simple tailor? / Odo: A simple tailor? A simple tailor who used to be an agent of the Obsidian Order!”

“‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’”

‘That was a simple cause,’ said Sir Tristram, ‘for to slay a good knight for to say well by his master.’

“Chesapeake & Ohio turned to simple articulateds, for instance, simply because its Alleghany tunnels would not accommodate the low-pressure forward cylinders of larger compounds.”

“a simple ascidian”

“A medicine […] whose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.”

“"Yes; as well versed in the art of intrigue, I should think, as if she had been brought up in attendance in a court, instead of being a simple butler's daughter, in a gloomy old pile like this!"”

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