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▸ adjective: Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
▸ adjective: (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
▸ adjective: (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
▸ adjective: (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
▸ adjective: (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
▸ noun: (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
▸ noun: The first year of grade school.
▸ noun: A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
▸ noun: The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
▸ noun: A primary school.
▸ noun: (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
▸ noun: A primary colour.
▸ noun: (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
▸ noun: (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
▸ noun: (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
▸ noun: (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
▸ verb: (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
▸ verb: (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
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principal,
main,
beginning,
basic,
elementary,
essential,
original,
particular,
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democratic,
direct,
presidential,
first,
republican,
white,
second,
gubernatorial,
open,
national,
unknown
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