Primary

Primary may refer to:

  • Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies
  • Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
  • Primary (band), from Australia
  • Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
  • Primary election, an election by which a political party selects and nominates a candidate
  • Power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
  • Primary (film), 1960 documentary
  • Primary (LDS Church), children's Sunday School organization
  • "Primary" (song), by The Cure
  • Primary, the oldest period in the Geologic time scale (obsolete)
  • "Primary", a song by Spoon from the album Telephono
  • Primaries, remiges (wing feathers) in birds
  • Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series Lensman
  • The first stage in a thermonuclear explosive, may also be used alone in a lower-yield nuclear explosive, see nuclear weapon design

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Famous quotes containing the word primary:

    “What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    “A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)