prime
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- adjective
- /praɪm/
- Specialized
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primo
- Theory emptiness and theory rigidity are both prime factors in the loss of information.
- prime factors
Examples
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It's prime real estate.
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Like two is prime, double plus one is five, also prime.
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"Daddy had just explained to me about prime numbers, though I hadn't understood it all.
Fiction book (2002) -
Budget items denominated in foreign currency became prime targets of spending cuts.
Academic text (2001) -
COPD exacerbations are a prime concern for patients 6, 62, 63.
Academic text (2017) -
For geographers, the map has been the prime device for grasping the nature of all earthly items.
Academic text (2001) -
The only factors of 7 are 1 and 7, so it is a prime number.
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The number 11 is prime because it cannot be divided evenly by any number other than itself and 1.
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A number is considered prime if it has no divisors other than itself and one.
Idioms
Compounds
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A whole number greater than 1 that you can divide only by 1 and itself
- Formal
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A first being people think starts everything, often the God of some religions
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A number greater than one that can only be divided by one and itself and divides another number exactly
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The lowest interest rate banks charge to their best business customers
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An imaginary line at zero degrees that runs through Greenwich, England and is used to measure east and west
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A whole number greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prime comes from the Latin primus meaning 'first', the same root you see in primary. That is why a prime number is described as 'first' or basic: it is not divisible by other whole numbers except 1 and itself.