Usually means: First unmoved mover in cosmology.
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  1. primum mobile: Merriam-Webster
  2. primum mobile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. primum mobile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. primum mobile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. primum mobile: Vocabulary.com
  6. primum mobile: Wordnik
  7. primum mobile: Wiktionary
  8. Primum mobile, primum mobile: Dictionary.com
  9. primum mobile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Primum Mobile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Primum mobile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. primum mobile: Rhymezone
  13. Primum mobile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. primum mobile: FreeDictionary.org
  15. primum mobile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. primum mobile: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (primum mobile)

noun:  (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate.
noun:  (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
noun:  (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force.

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