First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence.
Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
The religious service appointed to this hour.
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
The chief or best individual or part.
The first note or tone of a musical scale.
An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To mark with a prime mark.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
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 prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
Developed by pressure or other causes.
Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
Of less than primary importance.
Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
Formed by mixing primary colors.
Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
The defensive backs.
An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
A satellite.
An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
A secondary circle.
A secondary school.
Anything secondary or of lesser importance.