priming

Meaning

1. The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
2. A substance used as a primer.
3. The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
4. The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.

primer

ground

fuze

fuzee

primer coat

priming coat

nozzle priming

flat coat

primer charge

detonating powder

lower layer

prime coating

initiating agent

base course

bottom course

footing course

paint primer

prime paint

bottom layer

bottom set

initiating charge

priming explosive

base coat

primary high explosive

fusse

ignition charge

initiating explosive

primer coating

fuze action

burster

initiating composition

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹaɪmɪŋ/

New

prime

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.