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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