(computer science) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.

A concept that cannot be defined in terms of other concepts. Also primitive notion

plural of Primitive Methodist

A member of an early evangelical form of Methodism.

The Irish language as attested from the fourth to the seventh centuries C.E. and written in the Ogham alphabet, the predecessor of Old Irish.

plural of primitive concept

(mathematics) Of a function, capable of being constructed from the zero function, successor function, and projection functions, by a finite number of applications of composition and recursion.

(embryology) A formation that occurs during the initial phases of embryonic development in birds, reptiles and mammals.

(mathematics, number theory) For a given modulus n, a number g such that for every a coprime to n there exists an integer k such that gᵏ ≡ a (mod n); a generator (or primitive element) of the multiplicative group, modulo n, of integers relatively prime to n.

A person in a developed nation who engages in body modification rituals and practices while making reference or homage to the rite of passage practices in "primitive cultures".