Associations to the word «Primary»

PRIMARY, adjective. The first in a group or series.

PRIMARY, adjective. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.

PRIMARY, adjective. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.

PRIMARY, adjective. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

PRIMARY, adjective. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.

PRIMARY, adjective. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.

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

PRIMARY, noun. The first year of grade school.

PRIMARY, noun. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

PRIMARY, noun. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.

PRIMARY, noun. A primary school.

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

PRIMARY, noun. A primary colour.

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

PRIMARY, verb. (US) (intransitive) To take part in a primary election.

PRIMARY, verb. (US) (politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election

PRIMARY ALCOHOL, noun. (chemistry) Any alcohol of general formula R-CH2-OH

PRIMARY ALCOHOLS, noun. Plural of primary alcohol

PRIMARY AMINE, noun. (chemistry) An amine, containing a single radical, of general formula R-NH2

PRIMARY AMINES, noun. Plural of primary amine

PRIMARY CARE, noun. (healthcare) The medical attention that a patient receives upon first contact with a healthcare system; either a general practitioner or the A&E or ER department of a hospital.

PRIMARY CELL WALL, noun. (biology) The semipermeable, outer cell wall of plant cells

PRIMARY CILIA, noun. Plural of primary cilium

PRIMARY CILIUM, noun. (biology) non-motile single cilium

PRIMARY COLOR, noun. Alternative spelling of primary colour

PRIMARY COLORS, noun. Plural of primary color

PRIMARY COLOUR, noun. Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours

PRIMARY COLOURS, noun. Plural of primary colour

PRIMARY DATA, noun. Data that has been compiled for a specific purpose, and has not been collated or merged with others

PRIMARY EDUCATION, noun. The basic schooling given to children up to the age of puberty including reading, writing, and basic math.

PRIMARY ELECTION, noun. (politics) A preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

PRIMARY ENERGY, noun. The energy contained in a fuel before it is processed

PRIMARY HYPOTHERMIA, noun. Hypothermia caused by exposure to a cold environment.

PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY, noun. (medicine) Any of the many genetic disorders due to an aspect of the body's immune system being either absent or failing to function normally.

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES, noun. Plural of primary industry

PRIMARY INDUSTRY, noun. (economics) An industry that processes raw materials for conversion by secondary industry into goods or services sold by tertiary industry to provide goods or services to consumers.

PRIMARY KEY, noun. (computing, database) In the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a column (or an irreducible group of columns) able to identify every row of the table.

PRIMARY KEYS, noun. Plural of primary key

PRIMARY MARKET, noun. (finance) The part of the financial markets that deals with the issuance of new securities.

PRIMARY OFFENSE, noun. (legal) The most serious offence of a group of offenses that a person committed at the same time, or is charged with committing at the same time.

PRIMARY OFFENSE, noun. (US) (legal) An offence of such seriousness that a police officer may arrest the person involved, or impose an instant fine.

PRIMARY OFFENSES, noun. Plural of primary offense

PRIMARY PHOSPHINE, noun. (chemistry) any compound of general formula R-PH2

PRIMARY PRODUCER, noun. A person or organization producing basic agricultural commodities, such as a farmer or cattle producer.

PRIMARY PRODUCER, noun. (biology) An autotroph organism producing complex organic matter, using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.

PRIMARY PRODUCTION, noun. The organic matter produced from carbon dioxide by photosynthesis

PRIMARY RATE INTERFACE, noun. (telecommunications) an ISDN service delivered over T1 , E1 or J1 datalines, with delivery of connections between 1472 kilobits per second and 1984 kilobits per second (kibibits)

PRIMARY REINFORCEMENT, noun. (psychology) A consequence, such as food or water, that fulfills a primary, unlearned drive, such as hunger or thirst, and thereby reinforces a behavior without dependence on prior learning.

PRIMARY REINFORCEMENTS, noun. Plural of primary reinforcement

PRIMARY RESEARCH, noun. The research that involves the collection of data that does not yet exist.

PRIMARY RESIDENCE, noun. The dwelling where a person usually lives. A person may have only one primary residence at any given time and is used for legal purposes such as determining where a person votes or pays taxes.

PRIMARY RESIDENCES, noun. Plural of primary residence. Note: the primary residence of multiple people since each person can have only one primary residence.

PRIMARY SCHOOL, noun. (British) (schools) The first formal, obligatory school. Usually begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.

PRIMARY SCHOOLS, noun. Plural of primary school

PRIMARY SECTOR, noun. (economics) The sector of the economy that principally produces raw materials for use by other sectors.

PRIMARY SECTORS, noun. Plural of primary sector

PRIMARY SOURCE, noun. (historiography) A historical document that was created at or near the time of the events studied, by a known person, for a known purpose

PRIMARY SOURCES, noun. Plural of primary source

PRIMARY STRUCTURE, noun. (biochemistry) the linear sequence of amino acids covalently linked by peptide bonds to form a single polypeptide chain

PRIMARY TEETH, noun. Plural of primary tooth

PRIMARY TOOTH, noun. Milk tooth

PRIMARY TRANSCRIPT, noun. (genetics) The RNA molecule that is produced by transcription of DNA, before splicing or polyadenylation

PRIMARY VALENCE, noun. (chemistry) in a coordination compound, the number of negative ions needed to satisfy the charge on the central metal ion

PRIMARY WORLD, noun. (fantasy) The real world of the reader or viewer, as opposed to the imaginary "secondary world" of a work of fiction.

PRIMARY WORLDS, noun. Plural of primary world

PRIMARY, noun. A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.

PRIMARY, noun. One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.

PRIMARY, noun. (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it.

PRIMARY, 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".

PRIMARY, adjective. Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest".

PRIMARY, adjective. Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct".

PRIMARY, adjective. Most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch".

PRIMARY, adjective. Of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing".

PRIMARY, adjective. Of primary importance.