ELEM The Finance and Administrative Services Abbreviation

Elementary

Element

A pure substance that cannot be broken down by chemical means to a simpler substance. Matter which cannot be broken up into simpler substances by chemical action, that is, whose molecules are all composed of only one kind of atom. A component of a variable. In a categorical variable, there is one element for each category and there may be other elements as well, such as an element that displays a subtotal during analysis.