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What's The Definition Of Primary?
[n] a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
[n] one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing [n] coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit; "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil" [adj] not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct" [adj] of primary importance; "basic truths" [adj] of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest" [adj] of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" Synonyms | Synonyms for Primary: basal | basic | capital | direct | elementary | essential | firsthand | first-string | original | particular | primary coil | primary election | primary feather | primary quill | primary winding | special | underived Related Terms | Find terms related to Primary: See Also | coil | direct primary | election | first | flight feather | pinion | quill | quill feather | transformer Primary In Webster's Dictionary \Pri"ma*ry\, a. [L. primarius, fr. primus first: cf. F.
primaire. See {Prime}, a., and cf. {Premier}, {Primero}.]
1. First in order of time or development or in intention;
primitive; fundamental; original.
The church of Christ, in its primary institution.
--Bp. Pearson.
These I call original, or primary, qualities of
body. --Locke.
2. First in order, as being preparatory to something higher;
as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as,
primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
4. (Geol.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
5. (Chem.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by,
some quality or property in the first degree; having
undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
{Primary alcohol} (Organic Chem.), any alcohol which possess
the group {CH2.OH}, and can be oxidized so as to form a
corresponding aldehyde and acid having the same number of
carbon atoms; -- distinguished from {secondary & tertiary
alcohols}.
{Primary amine} (Chem.), an amine containing the amido group,
or a derivative of ammonia in which only one atom of
hydrogen has been replaced by a basic radical; --
distinguished from {secondary & tertiary amines}.
{Primary amputation} (Surg.), an amputation for injury
performed as soon as the shock due to the injury has
passed away, and before symptoms of inflammation
supervene.
{Primary axis} (Bot.), the main stalk which bears a whole
cluster of flowers.
{Primary colors}. See under {Color}.
{Primary meeting}, a meeting of citizens at which the first
steps are taken towards the nomination of candidates, etc.
See {Caucus}.
{Primary pinna} (Bot.), one of those portions of a compound
leaf or frond which branch off directly from the main
rhachis or stem, whether simple or compounded.
{Primary planets}. (Astron.) See the Note under {Planet}.
{Primary qualities of bodies}, such are essential to and
inseparable from them.
{Primary quills} (Zo["o]l.), the largest feathers of the wing
of a bird; primaries.
{Primary rocks} (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed
to have been first formed, being crystalline and
containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.;
-- called also {primitive rocks}. The terms Secondary,
Tertiary, and Quaternary rocks have also been used in like
manner, but of these the last two only are now in use.
{Primary salt} (Chem.), a salt derived from a polybasic acid
in which only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by
a base or basic radical.
{Primary syphilis} (Med.), the initial stage of syphilis,
including the period from the development of the original
lesion or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms
indicative of general constitutional infection.
{Primary union} (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by
the first intention.
\Pri"ma*ry\, n.; pl. {Primaries}. 1. That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter. 2. A primary meeting; a caucus. 3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See {Plumage}, and Illust. of {Bird}. 4. (Astron.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under {Planet}. |
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