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Definition of Primary

1. Adjective. Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary. "A primary interest"

2. Noun. A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.

3. Adjective. Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic. "A primary instinct"

4. Noun. One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.

5. Adjective. Most important element. "A master switch"

6. Noun. (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it.

7. Adjective. Of or being the essential or basic part. "An elementary need for love and nurturing"

8. Noun. Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit. "Current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil"

9. Adjective. Of primary importance.

Definition of Primary

1. a. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

2. n. That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

Definition of Primary

1. Adjective. The first in a group or series. ¹

2. Adjective. That which is placed ahead of others. ¹

3. Noun. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party. ¹

4. Noun. The first year of grade school. ¹

5. Noun. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible. ¹

6. Noun. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system. ¹

7. Noun. A primary school. ¹

8. Noun. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird. ¹

9. Noun. A primary colour. ¹

10. Noun. (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary ¹

11. Verb. (American English) To take part in a primary election ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Primary

1. a preliminary election [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Primary

primal primal cut primal horde primal hordes primal scene primal scream primal screams primal therapy primalities primality

primally primaquine primaries primarily primariness primary (current term) primary(a) primary alcohol primary alcohols primary amenorrhea

primary amine primary amines primary atypical pneumonia primary care primary care physician primary cell primary cell wall primary censorship primary cilia primary cilium

Literary usage of Primary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"As reformed in March 1916, this comprises six divisions: primary (four years), ... primary schools are the concern of state (provincial) authorities. ..."

2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1884)
"The answer is generally given with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, but very rarely have I been told that the primary schools were excellent. ..."

3. The Lancet (1842)
"The last of the series, which has for its primary symptom the ... The simple primary ulcer, without induration or raised edges. 2. Gonorrhoea virulenta. 3. ..."

4. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Having taken fright at the 'mathematical Atheism,' which seemed to grow out of the current doctrines about primary qualities of matter, instead of applying ..."

5. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"Having taken fright at the ' mathematical Atheism,' which seemed to grow out of the current doctrines about primary qualities of matter, instead of applying ..."

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