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Prime

First in importance, degree, or rank.

Pronunciation: /pɹaɪ̯m/, /pɹiːm/

What “Prime” means

Adj

First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.

Noun

The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
The religious service appointed to this hour.
The early morning generally.
The earliest stage of something.
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

Verb

To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
To be renewed.
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
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.

Noun

An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus. The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

Related to primage and Latin prīmus.

From French prime (“reward, prize, bonus”).

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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