primary
IPA: prˈaɪmɛri
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 most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- A primary school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- (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.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
verb
- (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.
adjective
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- (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.
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Examples of "primary" in Sentences
- The primary pollinators are bees.
- The actress is clearly the primary.
- The primary consideration is the reader.
- The primary sound is that of somnambulism.
- Chips are the primary currency of the game.
- Fishing is the primary means of subsistence.
- Death is a primary preoccupation of the novel.
- He is the primary nemesis of the main character.
- Rivington and Bleak Hill are the main primary schools in the area.
- The majority of SBHCs provide the basic tools of primary preventive care.