Primary Explained

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

Primary (LDS Church), a children's Sunday School organization
Primary (musician) (born 1983), South Korean
Primary data (or raw data), a term for data collected from a source
Primary Flight Training, in the U.S. Navy
Primary source, original materials
Primary disease, a disease that is due to a root cause of illness
Christian Science practitioner#Primary class instruction

See also