Usually means: Generator of multiplicative group modulo.
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noun:  (mathematics, number theory) For a given modulus n, a number g such that for every a coprime to n there exists an integer k such that gᵏ ≡ a (mod n); a generator (or primitive element) of the multiplicative group, modulo n, of integers relatively prime to n.

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