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primary
/'praɪmɛri/
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  1. noun
    a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

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    primary election
    type of:
    election
  2. adjective
    of or being the essential or basic part

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    basal elemental elementary basic
  3. noun
    one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

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    primary feather primary quill
  4. noun
    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"

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    primary coil primary winding
    type of:
    coil
    part of:
    transformer
  5. adjective
    most important element
    "policemen were primary targets"

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    chief main master principal of import important
  6. noun
    (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
  7. adjective
    not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
    "a primary instinct"

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    underived
  8. adjective
    of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
    "primary goals" "a primary effect" "primary sources" "a primary interest"

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    special capital original first-string firsthand direct particular
    Opposite:
    secondary
Examples of primary
  • "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil"
  • "policemen were primary targets"
  • "a primary instinct"
  • "primary goals"
  • "a primary effect"
  • "primary sources"
  • "a primary interest"
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