Usually means: Number divisible by one, itself.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. prime: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prime, prime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prime: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prime, prime: Wordnik
  7. prime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Prime, prime: Wiktionary
  9. prime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prime: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prime: Dictionary.com
  13. prime (adj.), prime (n.), prime (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PRIME (PLC), PRIME, Prime (Moldovan TV channel), Prime (New Zealand), Prime (New Zealand TV channel), Prime (comics), Prime (disambiguation), Prime (film), Prime (graffiti artist), Prime (liturgy), Prime (order theory), Prime (surname), Prime (symbol), Prime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prime: Rhymezone
  19. prime, prime (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prime: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PRIME: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Prime: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. prime: Free Dictionary
  24. prime: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. prime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. prime: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Prime: Investopedia
  5. prime: Legal dictionary
  6. prime: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prime: Hacking Lexicon
  2. prime: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prime: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PRIME: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. prime: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prime: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Prime: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. prime, prime, prime: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. prime: Prime
  5. PRIME: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prime, prime, prime: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prime: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Prime: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See primed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  First in importance, degree, or rank.
adjective:  First in time, order, or sequence.
adjective:  First in excellence, quality, or value.
adjective:  (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
adjective:  (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
adjective:  (algebra, of an ideal) Having its complement closed under multiplication.
adjective:  (algebra, of a nonzero module) Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
adjective:  Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
adjective:  Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
noun:  (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
noun:  (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
noun:  (obsolete) The early morning generally.
noun:  (now rare) The earliest stage of something.
noun:  The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
noun:  The chief or best individual or part.
noun:  Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
noun:  (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
noun:  (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
noun:  (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
noun:  (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
noun:  (backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
noun:  The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
noun:  (chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
noun:  An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
noun:  (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
noun:  A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
noun:  (psychology) A stimulus which causes priming.
verb:  (transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
verb:  (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
verb:  (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
verb:  To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
verb:  To prepare; to make ready.
verb:  (archaic) To instruct beforehand, as for an examination; to coach.
verb:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
verb:  (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
noun:  (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens. [(photography) A photographic lens with a constant focal length, as opposed to a zoom lens.]

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