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Definition of prime

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Prime (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

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Principal :: Principal (n.) A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth..

Primer :: Primer (n.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica..

Primer :: Primer (n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction..

Prime :: Prime (a.) A prime number. See under Prime, a..

Prime :: Prime (n.) The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection..

Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Reprimer :: Reprimer (n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again..

Prime :: Prime (a.) To mark with a prime mark.

A B C :: A B C () A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading.

Prime :: Prime (#) Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donn.

Primevous :: Primevous (a.) Primeval.

Depriment :: Depriment (a.) Serving to depress.

Second :: Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8..

Prime :: Prime (a.) The first of the chief guards.

Passee :: Passee (a.) Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle..

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) 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; -- said of a steam boiler..

Primeness :: Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being prime, or excellent..

Primer :: Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..