prime

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

1. (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
2. The religious service appointed to this hour.
3. (obsolete) The early morning generally.
4. (archaic) The earliest stage of something.
5. The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
6. The chief or best individual or part.
7. Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
8. The first note or tone of a musical scale.
9. The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
10. A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
11. A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
12. A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
13. The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
14. (obsolete) 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.
15. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
16. (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
17. (abbreviation, alt-of, contraction) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
18. A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
19. A stimulus which causes priming.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
2. (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be renewed.
4. (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
5. (intransitive) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
6. To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
7. To prepare; to make ready.
8. (archaic) To instruct beforehand, as for an examination; to coach.
9. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To trim or prune.
10. To mark with a prime mark.

Noun

An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

Synonyms

heyday

excellent

chief

first-rate

principal

bloom

primary

peak

prime number

top

🔝

best

choice

main

superior

first

1st

flower

🌸

load

capital

first-class

blossom

🌼

ready

prize

select

master

primal

premier

basic

quality

paramount

leading

key

🔑

efflorescence

ground

zenith

superb

highest

prime quantity

foremost

ringleader

prosperity

beginning

priming

premium

staple

new

🆕

original

meridian

initial

flush

culprit

Translations

nombre premier

premier

1st

primo

πρώτος

primo

1st

primero

prime

1st

primeira

primeiro

principale

primo

numero primo

eerste

1st

voornaamste

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹaɪ̯m/

Etymology

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

Sentences

All prime and second majors became known as majors .

A classic example of a one-way function is multiplication of very large prime numbers .

He remains Finland's longest-serving prime minister .

Furthermore , the following was shown: Let " p " be a Wieferich prime .