{i} fundamental elements, basic points; buds, parts of an organism that are not fully developed
When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it. She helped to build a house, learning the rudiments of brick-laying as she went along. = basics. the most basic parts of a subject, which you learn first = basics rudiments of (rudimentum , from rudis; RUDE)
those steps or actions used to get the pc in shape to be audited in that session For auditing to take place at all the pc must be "in- session" which means: (1) willing to talk to the auditor, (2) interested in own case Rudiments are actions done to accomplish this
the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac" the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry