Mathematics
- Primitive element (field theory)
- Primitive element (finite field)
- Primitive cell (crystallography)
- Primitive notion, axiomatic systems
- Primitive polynomial, one of two concepts
- Primitive function or Antiderivative, F′ = f
- Primitive permutation group
- Primitive root of unity; see Root of unity#Definition.
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