Overview of noun primary

The noun primary has 4 senses

• primary, primary election -- (a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen)


• primary, primary feather, primary quill -- (one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing)


• primary -- ((astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it)


• primary coil, primary winding, primary -- (coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit; "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil")

Overview of adj primary

The adj primary has 5 senses

• primary -- (of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest")


• primary -- (not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct")


• chief, main, primary, principal, master -- (most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch")


• elementary, elemental, primary -- (of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing")


• basal, primary -- (of primary importance)