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Primary or primaries may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups and labels

  • Primary (band), from Australia
  • Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
  • Primary Music, Israeli record label

Works

  • Primary (album) by Rubicon (2002)
  • "Primary" (song) by The Cure
  • "Primary", song by Spoon from the album Telephono

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series Lensman
  • Primary (film), American political documentary (1960)

Computing

  • PRIMARY, an X Window selection
  • Primary data storage, computer technology used to retain digital data
  • Primary server, main server on the server farm

Education

  • Primary education, the first stage of compulsory education
  • Primary FRCA, academic examination for anaesthetists in the U.K.
  • Primary school, school providing primary education

Mathematics

  • p-group of prime power order
  • Primary decomposition into primary ideals
  • Primary ideals, concept in commutative algebra
  • Primary number, positive integer power of a prime number

Politics

  • Primary election, 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 (chemistry), term used in organic chemistry
  • Primary, the oldest period in the Geologic time scale (obsolete)
  • Primary, a stage in a thermonuclear explosive
  • Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
  • Primary field, type of field in conformal field theory
  • Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
  • Primary power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
  • Primary feathers, flight feathers attached to the manus ("hand") in the wings of birds
  • Primary color

Other uses

See also

  • Binary (disambiguation)
  • Primary group (disambiguation)
  • Second (disambiguation)
  • Unary (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Primary
  • All pages with titles containing Primary
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