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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
primary/ˈprʌɪməri/
▶adjective
- 1 of chief importance; principal.
- 2 earliest in time or order.
■ (Primary) Geology former term for Palaeozoic.
- 3 not caused by or based on anything else.
- 4 chiefly Brit. relating to or denoting education for children between the ages of about five and eleven.
- 5 of or denoting the input side of a transformer or other inductive device.
- 6 Chemistry (of an organic compound) having its functional group on a carbon atom bonded to no more than one other carbon atom.
■ derived from ammonia by replacement of one hydrogen atom by an organic group.
- 1 (in the US) a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election.
- 2 Astronomy the body orbited by a smaller body.
– origin ME: from L. primarius, from primus ‘first’.
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