Meaning of "prime" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRIME

(Adj) C14: from Latin prīmus first; (n) C13: from Latin prīma ( hora) the first (hour); (vb) C16: of uncertain origin, probably connected with n.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PRIME

prime  [praɪm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIME

Prime is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prime in English.

WHAT DOES PRIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prime number

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because 1 and 5 are its only positive integer factors, whereas 6 is composite because it has the divisors 2 and 3 in addition to 1 and 6. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic establishes the central role of primes in number theory: any integer greater than 1 can be expressed as a product of primes that is unique up to ordering. The uniqueness in this theorem requires excluding 1 as a prime because one can include arbitrarily many instances of 1 in any factorization, e.g., 3, 1 × 3, 1 × 1 × 3, etc. are all valid factorizations of 3. The property of being prime is called primality. A simple but slow method of verifying the primality of a given number n is known as trial division. It consists of testing whether n is a multiple of any integer between 2 and. Algorithms much more efficient than trial division have been devised to test the primality of large numbers.

Definition of prime in the English dictionary

The first definition of prime in the dictionary is first in quality or value; first-rate. Other definition of prime is fundamental; original. Prime is also first in importance, authority, etc; chief.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PRIME

PRESENT

Present

I prime

you prime

he/she/it primes

we prime

you prime

they prime

Present continuous

I am priming

you are priming

he/she/it is priming

we are priming

you are priming

they are priming

Present perfect

I have primed

you have primed

he/she/it has primed

we have primed

you have primed

they have primed

Present perfect continuous

I have been priming

you have been priming

he/she/it has been priming

we have been priming

you have been priming

they have been priming

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I primed

you primed

he/she/it primed

we primed

you primed

they primed

Past continuous

I was priming

you were priming

he/she/it was priming

we were priming

you were priming

they were priming

Past perfect

I had primed

you had primed

he/she/it had primed

we had primed

you had primed

they had primed

Past perfect continuous

I had been priming

you had been priming

he/she/it had been priming

we had been priming

you had been priming

they had been priming

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will prime

you will prime

he/she/it will prime

we will prime

you will prime

they will prime

Future continuous

I will be priming

you will be priming

he/she/it will be priming

we will be priming

you will be priming

they will be priming

Future perfect

I will have primed

you will have primed

he/she/it will have primed

we will have primed

you will have primed

they will have primed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been priming

you will have been priming

he/she/it will have been priming

we will have been priming

you will have been priming

they will have been priming

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would prime

you would prime

he/she/it would prime

we would prime

you would prime

they would prime

Conditional continuous

I would be priming

you would be priming

he/she/it would be priming

we would be priming

you would be priming

they would be priming

Conditional perfect

I would have prime

you would have prime

he/she/it would have prime

we would have prime

you would have prime

they would have prime

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been priming

you would have been priming

he/she/it would have been priming

we would have been priming

you would have been priming

they would have been priming

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you prime
we let´s prime
you prime

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to prime

Past participle

primed

Present Participle

priming

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PRIME»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prime» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of prime

archetypal · basic · beginning · best · bloom · brief · capital · cardinal · central · characteristic · chief · choice · classic · coach · conventional · equip · excellent · fill in · first-class · first-rate · flower · foremost · fundamental · gen up · groom · height · heyday · ideal · inform · key · leading · load · main · major · make ready · maturity · morning · notify · opening · original · overriding · paramount · peak · perfection · pre-eminent · predominant · prepare · primary · principal · prototypical · quality · quintessential · ruling · select · senior · set up · signature · spring · standard · start · stock · superior · supreme · tell · top · train · typical · ultimate · underlying · zenith

TRANSLATION OF PRIME

Find out the translation of prime to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of prime from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prime» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 主要的
• Translator English - Spanish: principal
• English: prime
• Translator English - Hindi: प्रधानमंत्री
• Translator English - Arabic: رئيس الوزراء
• Translator English - Russian: премьер-
• Translator English - Portuguese: primário
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রধান
• Translator English - French: primordial
• Translator English - Malay: Perdana
• Translator English - German: oberste
• Translator English - Japanese: 最重要な
• Translator English - Korean: 가장 중요한
• Translator English - Javanese: Prima
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thủ
• Translator English - Tamil: முதன்மை
• Translator English - Marathi: प्राणायाम
• Translator English - Turkish: asal
• Translator English - Italian: primario
• Translator English - Polish: pierwsza
• Translator English - Ukrainian: прем´єр-
• Translator English - Romanian: prim-
• Translator English - Greek: προνομιακή
• Translator English - Afrikaans: eerste
• Translator English - Swedish: prime
• Translator English - Norwegian: prime

10 QUOTES WITH «PRIME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prime.

1

Shinzo Abe

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

2

Jeffrey Archer

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

3

Rick Atkinson

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

4

Christiaan Barnard

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

5

John Bercow

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

6

Benazir Bhutto

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

7

Els Borst

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

8

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

9

Ivica Dacic

As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

10

Armand Deutsch

It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIME»

Discover the use of prime in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prime and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Inside Prime Time

Inside Prime Time is a classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry, newly available with an updated introduction.

Todd Gitlin, 2005

Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective

This book concentrates on the computational aspects of prime numbers, such as recognizing primes and discovering the fundamental prime factors of a given number. It includes over 100 explicit algorithms cast in detailed pseudocode.

Richard Crandall, Carl B. Pomerance, 2006

Prime Obsession:: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved ...

Not just a story of numbers and calculations, Prime Obsession is the engrossing tale of a relentless hunt for an elusive proof - and those who have been consumed by it.

John Derbyshire, 2003

The Prime Number Theorem

This is indisputably one of the the great classical theorems of mathematics.

G. J. O. Jameson, 2003

Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math

A fascinating journey into the mind-bending world of prime numbers Cicadas of the genus Magicicada appear once every 7, 13, or 17 years. Is it just a coincidence that these are all prime numbers?

David Wells, 2011

The Prime Numbers and Their Distribution

The goal of this book is to provide insights into the prime numbers and to describe how a sequence so tautly determined can incorporate such a striking amount of randomness.

Gerald Tenenbaum, Michel Mendès France

The Distribution of Prime Numbers

Originally published in 1934, this volume presents the theory of the distribution of the prime numbers in the series of natural numbers. Despite being long out of print, it remains unsurpassed as an introduction to the field.

Albert Edward Ingham, 1932

The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945

The author analyzes the office of prime minister in England in the postwar period, profiling the eleven office-holders and discussing changes in the office.

Peter Hennessy, 2001

Prime

So, how do you look for a life partner after fifty and enjoy sexual adventures along the way? Prime is Dr. Pepper's response to this question.

Pepper Schwartz, 2009

Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America

"Prime-Time Families" provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades.

Ella Taylor, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prime is used in the context of the following news items.

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UK prime minister puts £1bn towards infrastructure in Indonesia

The prime minister arrived in Indonesia on Monday on a four-day Asian tour, during which he hopes to capitalise on the region's growth to ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

Ashamed to Sit in Parliament, Says Former Prime Minister HD Deve …

Former Prime Minister, HD Deve Gowda observed a fast at Jantar Mantar blaming the government for its negligence towards farmers. «NDTV, Jul 15»

Moldova President Nominates Strelets As Next Prime Minister

Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti has signed a decree nominating Valeriu Strelet of the Liberal-Democratic Party as the country's next prime ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Jul 15»

Que Prime (Unlocked)

With its iPhone-inspired design, the Que Prime ($22.99) is the most attractive of the under-$25 unlocked cell phones we've been testing, and it ... «PC Magazine, Jul 15»

Edward Natapei, Vanuatu's former prime minister, dies aged 61

The opposition leader passed away in a hospital in Port Vila this morning at the age of 61. He served as prime minister of the Pacific island ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»

Could LeBron James Beat Michael Jordan In His Prime?

So, bet $3 to win $2 on LeBron and — in what has to be a first for him — bet $2 to win $3 on a prime Michael Jordan beating LeBron. «UPROXX, Jul 15»