Primary or primaries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
Groups and labels
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Primary (band), from Australia
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Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
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Primary Music, Israeli record label
Works
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''Primary'' (album) by Rubicon (2002)
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"Primary" (song) by The Cure
* "Primary", song by Spoon from the album ''
Telephono''
* "Primary", instrumental by Van Halen from the album ''
Van Halen III''
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
* Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series ''
Lensman''
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''Primary'' (film), American political documentary (1960)
Computing
* PRIMARY, an
X Window selection
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Primary data storage, computer technology used to retain digital data
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Primary server, main server on the server farm
Education
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Primary education, the first stage of compulsory education
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Primary FRCA, academic examination for anaesthetists in the U.K.
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Primary school, school providing primary education
Mathematics
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''p''-group of prime power order
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Primary decomposition into primary ideals
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Primary ideals, concept in commutative algebra
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Primary number, positive integer power of a prime number
Politics
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Primary election
Primary or primaries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and mediaMusicGroups and labels
* Primary (band), from Australia
* Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
* Primary Music, Israeli record label
Works
* ...
s or primaries, elections held to determine which candidates will run for an upcoming general election
* Primary vote, the total of
first-preference votes in the Australian electoral system
Science and mechanics
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Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies
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Primary (chemistry), term used in organic chemistry
* Primary, the oldest period in the
Geologic time scale (obsolete), combining the
Precambrian
The Precambrian ( ; pre-Cambrian, or Cryptozoic, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ or PreꞒ) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first pe ...
and
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma at the start ...
* Primary, a stage in a
thermonuclear explosive
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Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
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Primary field, type of field in conformal field theory
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Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
* Primary
power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
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Primary feathers, flight feathers attached to the manus ("hand") in the wings of birds
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Primary color
Primary or primaries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and mediaMusicGroups and labels
* Primary (band), from Australia
* Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
* Primary Music, Israeli record label
Works
* ...
Other uses
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Primary (LDS Church), a children's Sunday School organization
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Primary (musician) (born 1983), South Korean
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Primary data (or raw data), a term for data collected from a source
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Primary Flight Training, in the U.S. Navy
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Primary source
In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time un ...
, original materials
* Primary
disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are ...
, a disease that is due to a root cause of illness
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Christian Science practitioner#Primary class instruction
See also
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Binary (disambiguation)
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Primary group (disambiguation)
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Second (disambiguation)
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Unary (disambiguation)
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