Primary
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Primary may refer to:
Arts and culture
- Primary (film), 1960 documentary
- Primary (band), from Australia
- Primary (musician) (born 1983), South Korean musician
- "Primary" (song), by The Cure
- Primary (album), a 2002 album by Rubicon
- Primary Music, Israeli record label
- "Primary", a song by Spoon from the album Telephono
- Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series Lensman
Computing
- Primary data storage, a computer technology used to retain digital data
- Primary server, main server on the server farm
- PRIMARY, an X Window selection
Mathematics
- Prime power, positive integer power of a prime number
- Primary decomposition, a decomposition into primary ideals
- p-group, a group of prime power order
- Primary ideals, a concept in commutative algebra
Politics
- Primary election, an election by which a political party selects and nominates a candidate
- Primary vote, the total of first-preference votes in the Australian electoral system
Science and mechanics
- Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies
- Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
- Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
- Primary field, a type of field in conformal field theory
- Power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
- Primary (chemistry), a term used in organic chemistry
- Primary, the oldest period in the Geologic time scale (obsolete)
- Primaries, remiges (wing feathers) in birds
- The first stage in a thermonuclear explosive, may also be used alone in a lower-yield nuclear explosive, see nuclear weapon design
Other
- Primary (LDS Church), children's Sunday School organization
- Primary data (or raw data), a term for data collected from a source
- Primary education, the first stage of compulsory education
- Primary Flight Training, in the U.S. Navy
- Primary FRCA, academic examination for anaesthetists in the U.K.
- Primary school, a school providing primary education
- Primary source, original materials
See also
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