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.
Concepts
prime
heyday
excellent
chief
first-rate
principal
bloom
best
peak
top
primary
prime number
first
superior
choice
main
flower
first-class
load
blossom
capital
highest
foremost
superb
prize
quality
zenith
ready
basic
premier
ground
select
prime quantity
efflorescence
key
master
paramount
primal
leading
perfect
supreme
summit
conspicuous
chief instigator
culprit
head a conspiracy
important one
ringleader
fine
premium
wonderful
prepare for shooting
beginning
undercoat
meridian
prime of life
flush
fill
original
prosperity
initial
priming
new
untainted
virgin
staple
instruct
rehearse
tutor
absolute
final
greatest
being at one’s best
outstanding
topmost
good
adulthood
middle age
midlife
selected
earliest
elemental
essential
fundamental
underlying
bottom
mainline
pivotal
flourish
pick
prime rate
coach
head
particular one
acme
acne
point
basis
commencement
forepart
inception
incipience
incipiency
incunabula
magistracy
origin
origination
outset
principle
start
exquisite
ripping
signal
brew
concoct
get ready
make ready
prepare
catechise
catechize
sermonize
coat
paint primer
primer coating
simple quantity
semantic primitive
semantic prime
archetypal
primate
bully
pukka
overriding
precondition
lushness
central
cephalic
primo
prima
fill in
charge
close
complete
discharge
drench
farce
fill out
fill up
flood
fulfil
fulfill
imbue
impregnate
inflate
infuse
line
litter
live up to
make full
make out
man
meet
occupy
pack
satisfy
stuff
top off
turn
wad
attune
cock
energise
energize
excite
hop up
hot up
pitch
set
sound off
soup up
strike up
tune
tune in
tune up
tweak
amazing
astonishing
awesome
magnificent
marvellous
marvelous
phenomenal
splendid
startling
Golden Age
integrity
perfection
earlier
eventual
last
ultimate
utmost
unison
flourishing
big
elder
great
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɹaɪ̯m/
Etymology
Borrowed from French prime, from Latin primus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo. The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.
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