Definition of primary

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Primary (a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance..

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Secondhand :: Secondhand (a.) Not original or primary; received from another.
Monoplastic :: Monoplastic (a.) That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element..
Bronchus :: Bronchus (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
Tangram :: Tangram (n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction..
Pinus :: Pinus (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine..
Proto- :: Proto- () A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan..
Primary :: Primary (a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..
Stilet :: Stile (v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised..
Protozoonite :: Protozoonite (n.) One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod..
Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..
Node :: Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary..
Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..
Primal :: Primal (a.) First; primary; original; chief.
Primitive :: Primitive (n.) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..
Achromatic :: Achromatic (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar..
Solidity :: Solidity (n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness..
School :: School (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school..
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