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Definition primary
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?m?rius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from pr?mus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier.
Adjective
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primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)
- first or earliest in a group or series.
- main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Noun
primary (plural primaries)
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- A primary school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- (medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Verb
primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)
- (US, transitive) To knock out an incumbent in the primary election, typically used referring to a non-incumbent challenger.
- (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
- (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election
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