The phrase "a fundamental form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing essential or basic types or structures of something, often in academic or technical contexts.
Example: "In mathematics, a fundamental form can be used to describe the intrinsic geometry of a surface."
Alternatives: "a basic type" or "an essential structure".
This ballet of musical objects not only illustrates Aristotle's notion of a fundamental form outside the empirical realm — as matter decays, the spirit persists — but also celebrates the sonic diversity of avant-garde composition.
In their efforts to escape rigid metrical patterns and to achieve freer poetic rhythms, many Symbolist poets resorted to the composition of prose poems and the use of vers libre (free verse), which has now become a fundamental form of contemporary poetry.
Abduction is a fundamental form of nonmonotonic reasoning that aims at finding explanations for observed manifestations.
Touch is a fundamental form of non visual perception, one that plays a crucial role in nearly all of our sensory experiences (a feature noted by Gibson 1966).
Livestock is therefore a fundamental form of pastoral capital, besides functioning as a means of production, storage, transport and transfer of food and wealth (Behnke 2008).
For example, according to a fundamental form of consequentialism, whether an action is morally right or wrong has exclusively to do with whether its consequences are intrinsically better than those of any other action one can perform under the circumstances.
Each nose is unique, so decisions about shaping it must be imaginative, though always guided by a fundamental form-follows-function principle: i.e., the patient should be able to breathe through the nose when the work is finished.
From a perceptual standpoint, the harmonics of a missing fundamental form a coherent auditory object that is perceived to be one octave lower [37], [38] (165, 165, 208, 247, and 330 Hz, respectively) than the lowest actual frequency.
Let's grant that to have a thought determinately about an individual in a reduplication universe requires possessing an irreducible, fundamental form of demonstrative identification.
Sabin Howard, in my opinion, has made a breakthrough in these drawings in his passionate pursuit of a particular fundamental form of beauty.
Outside of courses and set lectures, for example, educationalists like Sugata Mitra and the One Laptop Per Child organisation have experimented with a more fundamental form of autodidacticism: give people access to technology, and let them get on with it.
