Essential

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Essential or essentials can refer to:

• An essential property, which defines an entity as being a particular type of entity. See also essentialism, the philosophical view that an entity must have certain characteristics in order to belong to a certain defined group, and its counterpart, non-essentialism
• Essentials of Fire Fighting, a firefighter training manual published by the International Fire Service Training Association and Fire Protection Publications
• The Essential Marvel Comics line of reprints
• In measure theory (mathematics), essentially describes properties that hold almost everywhere

In music

• The Essentials are a Canadian acappella group
• The Essential series of compilation albums released by Sony BMG
• Either of two companies named Essential Records
• Essential (Divinyls album), an album by the Divinyls
• Essential (Pet Shop Boys album), an album by Pet Shop Boys
• Essentials (The Cars album), an album by The Cars
• Essentials, an album by Travis Tritt

[edit] See also

• Essence

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