Definition of primary

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Primary (a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.

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Implacentalia :: Implacentalia (n. pl.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed..
Primal :: Primal (a.) First; primary; original; chief.
Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..
Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..
Somatocyst :: Somatocyst (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Tertiary :: Tertiary (a.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary..
Idiopathy :: Idiopathy (n.) A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.
Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate..
Proto- :: Proto- () A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan..
Tartramic :: Tartramic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid..
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..
Hue :: Hue (n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
Purple :: Purple (n.) A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue..
Primogenial :: Primogenial (a.) First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light..
Primeval :: Primeval (a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man..
School :: School (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school..
Node :: Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary..
Solidity :: Solidity (n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness..
Primigenial :: Primigenial (a.) First born, or first of all; original; primary. See Primogenial..
Rib :: Rib (n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like..
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