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prime
Meaning
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- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- Having its complement closed under multiplication.
- Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- (obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɹaɪ̯m/
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