primary
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- noun
- /ˈpraɪˌmɛri/
- Specialized
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estrella primaria
- Maybe they would never find the primary, I was told.
- primary and secondary star
- magnitude of the primary
Examples
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"Perhaps you recall several years ago the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy with our primary?"
Fiction book (2001) -
It was the unknown primary that sent chills through me whenever I read the report.
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One of the stars, the primary, is blue and much brighter than its companion.
Academic text (2000) -
So from a single primary cosmic ray comes a shower of particles streaming towards the Earth.
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So what you're going to get is observationally planets that are relatively close to their primary stars.
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I knew the pathology report by heart: papillary carcinoma with an unknown primary.
Fiction book (2001) -
These binaries contain a faint, orange-red, spectral class F to K, giant or sub-giant star, called the secondary, and a luminous, blue, spectral class B to A, main-sequence companion, called the primary.
Academic text (2000) -
The primary star in this system is surrounded by several smaller planets orbiting around it.
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The researchers focused on the primary to understand the dynamics of its surrounding planets.
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Astronomers observed the primary, noting its brightness compared to the dimmer stars nearby.
Synonyms
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A natural object in space like a star or planet that you can see in the sky
Compounds
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A doctor you see first for health problems who gives general care and arranges specialist help
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3.2
An early election where party voters choose candidates for the general election
- Literature
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An early election before the main vote where any registered voter can vote for candidates of only one party
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A doctor or nurse you see first for health problems and regular check-ups
- Specialized
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Basic health care you get first from a doctor or community clinic for everyday needs
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An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote
- Specialized
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A long part of a bird's wing at the outer edge that helps the bird fly
- Offensive
An election with too many messy candidates that makes it hard to pick one
- Specialized
A lung infection in children and young adults that causes high fever and cough
- Jargon
Military officers check soldiers' personal letters and messages for secret information
- Specialized
Body parts used for having babies, like genitals, that show if someone is male or female
- Specialized
A body part you are born with that helps make babies, like genitals or ovaries
- Specialized
A loop of wire where changing electric current makes a magnetic field that creates current in a nearby loop
One of the three basic paint colours red, blue and yellow used to make other colours
- Specialized
Painful cramps in the lower belly that happen during a normal period
- Specialized
A body part you are born with that is used to make babies, like genitals
- Specialized
A solid metal in which atoms of other elements mix evenly into its structure
- Specialized
One of three colors, magenta, cyan and yellow, used in printing to make many colors by removing light
- Specialized
The first stage of syphilis when a painless sore appears at the infection site
- Specialized
A coil that receives input electricity and causes a changing current in the secondary coil
Surface Forms
Etymology
Primary comes from the Latin root primus meaning 'first' and is the same root as prime, so in astronomy a primary is the main or 'first' body that other objects go around.