Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

essential

[see also: basic, critical, crucial, key]

Essential to the proof are certain topological properties of G.

The assumed positivity of un is essential for these results.

We will not use this fact in any essential way.


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