prime

Meanings

Adjective

• 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: said only of ideals.
• Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
• Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
• Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

Noun

• The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
• The religious service appointed to this hour.
• The early morning generally.
• The earliest stage of something.
• The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
• The chief or best individual or part.
• The first note or tone of a musical scale.
• The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
• A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
• A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
• Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
• The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
• 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.
• An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
• The priming in a flintlock.
• A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
• An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

Verb

• To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
• To apply a coat of primer paint to.
• To be renewed.
• To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
• 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.
• To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
• To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
• To trim or prune.
• To mark with a prime mark.

Related

Similar words

• indivisible
• bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak
• choice, prize, quality, select
• prime number
• white
• ground, undercoat

Opposite words

• composite

Narrower meaning words

• biprime
• pseudoprime
• semiprime
• coprime
• additive prime
• annihilating prime
• Bell prime
• Carol prime
• Catalan prime
• centered decagonal prime
• centered heptagonal prime
• centered square prime
• centered triangular prime
• Chen prime
• circular prime
• cousin prime
• Cuban prime
• Cullen prime
• delannoy prime
• deletable prime
• dihedral prime
• double factorial prime
• double Mersenne prime
• Eisenstein prime without imaginary part
• emirp
• Euclid prime
• Euclid-Mullin Sequence prime
• Euler irregular prime
• even prime
• factorial prime
• Fermat prime
• Fibonacci prime
• fortunate prime
• Gaussian prime
• generalized Fermat prime base 10
• Genocchi prime
• Gilda's prime
• good prime
• happy prime
• harmonic prime
• Higgs prime for squares
• highly cototient prime
• illegal prime
• irregular prime
• isolated prime
• Kynea prime
• left-truncatable prime
• Leyland prime
• long prime
• Lucas prime
• lucky prime
• Markov prime
• Mersenne prime
• Mills prime
• minimal prime
• Motzkin prime
• Newman–Shanks–Williams prime
• non-generous prime
• odd prime
• Padovan prime
• palindromic prime
• palindromic wing prime
• partition prime
• Pell prime
• permutable prime
• Perrin prime
• Pierpont prime
• Pillai prime
• prime of Binary Quadratic Form
• prime triplet
• primeval prime
• primorial prime
• Proth prime
• Pythagorean prime
• Quartan prime
• Ramanujan prime
• regular prime
• repunit prime
• right-truncatable prime
• safe prime
• Schröder prime
• Schröder-Hipparchus prime
• self prime
• sexy prime
• Smarandache-Wellin prime
• Smarandache–Wellin prime
• Solinas prime
• Sophie Germain prime
• star prime
• Stern prime
• super-prime
• supersingular prime
• swinging prime
• Thabit prime
• titanic prime
• twin prime
• two-sided prime
• Ulam prime
• unique prime
• Wagstaff prime
• Wall–Sun–Sun prime
• Weakly primes
• Wedderburn-Etherington prime
• Wieferich prime
• Wilson prime
• Wolstenholme prime
• Woodall prime

Origin

• Borrowed from French prime, from Latin primus ("first"), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- ("beyond, before"). primo.
• The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.
• Related to primage and primus.
• From French prime.