Prime (disambiguation)

Prime (Latin for "first") or the acronym PRIME may refer to:

In mathematics:

• Prime, a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.
• Relatively prime, two numbers whose greatest common divisor is 1
• Prime element
• Prime form of a Riemann surface
• Prime (symbol), the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix
• Prime 3-manifold, a 3-manifold that cannot be written as the connect sum of two nontrivial 3-manifolds
• Prime ideal, a subset of a ring
• Prime knot, a knot that cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots in knot theory
• Prime model, as simple a model as possible in model theory

In popular culture:

• Prime (film), a romantic comedy
• Prime (comics), a graphic novel character
• Prime (Transformers), a title used by Autobot leaders in Transformers
• Dyson Aliens or The Primes, aliens in Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga
• Metroid Prime, a game in Nintendo's Metroid franchise

In television:

• Prime time, a block of slots each evening in broadcast programming
• AFN Prime, part of the American Forces Network
• BBC Prime, a television channel in Europe and the Middle East
• Prime Network, a defunct cable sports network in the United States
• Prime Televisie, a Flemish pay television channel
• Prime Media Group, an Australian media corporation
  • Prime Television, a television network in Australia owned by Prime Media
• Prime (New Zealand)
• TVtropolis or Prime, a CanWest-owned Canadian television channel

In other uses:

• Prime Computer, a producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992, whose logo was stylized as Pr1me Computer
• Prime F.C., a Nigerian football club
• Prime, Inc., an American trucking company
• Prime (liturgy), the first of the canonical hours
• X-23 PRIME, an experimental re-entry vehicle
• Prime Group, a Swedish strategic communication consultancy
• Programme for Rebuilding and IMproving Existing schools, a programme of the Singapore Ministry of Education
• Peg Restrained Intrinsic Muscle Evaluator, a device for measuring the strength of intrinsic hand muscles
• PRIME, a standard definition narrow-band Power line communication
• Priming, to start up a pump
• Prime, a term in social cognition referring to an environmental trigger of cognitive processes

People with the surname

• Samuel I. Prime (1812–1885), American clergyman, traveller, and writer
• Geoffrey Prime (born 1938), British spy

See also

• Prime form in music
• Prime lens, is a lens which has a fixed focal length, in film and photography
• Prime Minister, the highest executive office with real powers in certain governments
• Prime rate, of interest applied in banking
• E-Prime, a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of "to be"
• Directionality (molecular biology), 3′ (3 prime) and 5′ (5 prime) ends in biochemistry
• Prime parry, a parry form in fencing

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