Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
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
Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
One who fits an item of that size.
One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
Young, as a child.
Humiliated or insignificant.
Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
That is small (the manufactured size).
Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
To become small; to dwindle.
In a small fashion
In or into small pieces.