prime

/pɹaɪ̯m/ · noun

Meaning

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.
The chief or best individual or part.
First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
(lay) 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.
Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
To prepare 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.
(of a steam boiler) 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.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

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