Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.
A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
A signalling interaction between cells
An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
Useful information, as opposed to noise.
An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.
To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.