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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • First in excellence, quality, or value.
  • First in importance, degree, or rank.
  • First in time, order, or sequence
  • mathematics Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
  • lay Having no integral factors except itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
  • technical Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the mutiplicands.

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Noun:

  • obsolete The early morning.
  • backgammon Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
  • card games A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
  • historical One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
  • algebra|number theory A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
  • now|_|rare The earliest stage of something.
  • fencing The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
  • music The first note or tone of a musical scale.
  • The chief or best individual or part.
  • The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
  • The symbol: ?

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Verb:

  • transitive To apply a coat of primer paint to.
  • transitive To prepare a mechanism for its main work.

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