English Dictionary

primary

/ˈpɹaɪməɹi/

noun

A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party. / The first year of grade school. / A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

The primary election is an important step in the political process.

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

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The first year of grade school.

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A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

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The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.

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A primary school.

Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

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

`Good Lord, look at that swiftlet, it's got two primaries missing from its left wing!'

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A primary colour.

By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.

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(military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.

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(aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.

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(medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.

unknown primary

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