building block
noun
: a unit of construction or composition
especially
: something essential on which a larger entity is based
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historically the infantry division has been a basic building block of armies
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However, while Kubernetes provides the essential building blocks—such as auto-scaling, self-healing and rolling updates—add-ons are still necessary to extend functionality for specific operational needs, such as networking, policy-as-code, storage management and security.
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Ben Ofiri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
In a nutshell, the building blocks of any electoral consensus are weak at best.
—Chris Jackson, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
But an even more profound conviction underpinned this element of the WCTU platform: that the Anglo-Saxon family was the essential building block of American society.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
Baker and his team harnessed the power of computers to decode how amino acid chains, the building blocks of proteins, fold into specific three-dimensional shapes.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
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Ben Ofiri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
In a nutshell, the building blocks of any electoral consensus are weak at best.
—Chris Jackson, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
But an even more profound conviction underpinned this element of the WCTU platform: that the Anglo-Saxon family was the essential building block of American society.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
Baker and his team harnessed the power of computers to decode how amino acid chains, the building blocks of proteins, fold into specific three-dimensional shapes.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Building block.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/building%20block. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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