prime

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 30.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective First in importance, degree, or rank.

   Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.

2. adjective First in time, order, or sequence.

   Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.

3. adjective First in excellence, quality, or value.

   This is a prime location for a bookstore.

4. adjective Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

   Thirteen is a prime number.

5. adjective Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
6. adjective Having its complement closed under multiplication.
7. adjective Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
8. adjective Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

Similar words

premier first heyday quality superior prime of life fine choice select peak

Often followed by

minister ministers of importance mover example time movers and

Word family

Prime Primes primacy primed primely primeness primenesses primes priming