primary
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prīmārius, from prīmus (first; whence the English - adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English - suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier.
Pronunciation- (British) IPA: /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/
- (America) enPR: prīʹmĕr-ē, IPA: /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/ or enPR: prīʹmə-rē, IPA: /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/
- (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈpɹaɪm(ə)ɹiː/
primary
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
- the church of Christ, in its primary institution
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC ↗:, Book II, Chapter VIII
- These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- French: primaire
- Portuguese: primário, primária, primários, primárias
- Russian: перви́чный
- Spanish: primario
- French: prioritaire
- German: primär
- Italian: primario
- Portuguese: primário
- Russian: перви́чный
- Spanish: primario
primary (plural primaries)
- (political science) 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 most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- A primary school.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement:
- Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook:
- By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
- (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.
- (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.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- unknown primary
- most common primaries
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- Spanish: básico
- German: Handschwinge
primary (primaries, present participle primarying; simple past and past participle primaried)
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
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