prime vs secondary

prime

adj
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

secondary

adj
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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