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prime

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prime

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Definitions ofprime

1noun
  • The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
  • The religious service appointed to this hour.
  • The early morning generally.
  • The earliest stage of something.
  • The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
  • The chief or best individual or part.
  • The first note or tone of a musical scale.
  • The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
  • A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.

    Example: "3 is a prime."

  • A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
  • Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.

    Example: "I'm threatening to build a prime here."

  • The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
  • Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
  • An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
  • The priming in a flintlock.
  • Contraction of prime lens, a film lens
1adjective
  • First in importance, degree, or rank.

    Synonyms: greatest, main, "most important", primary, principal, top

    Example: "Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe."

  • First in time, order, or sequence.

    Synonyms: earliest, first, original

    Example: "Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals."

  • First in excellence, quality, or value.

    Synonyms: excellent, "top quality"

    Example: "This is a prime location for a bookstore."

  • (lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

    Example: "Thirteen is a prime number."

  • Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
  • Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
  • Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
  • Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
  • Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

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