Definition of primary

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Primary (n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

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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..
Pinna :: Pinna (n.) One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
Complication :: Complication (n.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it..
Daybook :: Daybook (n.) A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal..
Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..
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..
Bronchus :: Bronchus (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..
Monoplastic :: Monoplastic (a.) That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element..
Primitive :: Primitive (n.) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
Achromatic :: Achromatic (a.) Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
Prothallus :: Prothallus (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc..
Diploblastic :: Diploblastic (a.) Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
Primary :: Primary (n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter..
Remote :: Remote (superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
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..
Primary :: Primary (a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
Tangram :: Tangram (n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction..
Primary :: Primary (n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
Prime :: Prime (a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
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