prime A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only way ...

is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. Prime or PRIME may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Prime (comics) Prime is a superhero character created by Bob Jacob, Gerard Jones, Len Strazewski, Norm Breyfogle, and Bret Blevins. The character debuted in ''Prime'' #1 under Malibu Comics' Ultraverse imprint, and was one of the publisher's flagship character ...

, a comic book character * Dyson Aliens or The Primes, aliens in Peter Hamilton's ''Commonwealth Saga''

Music

Prime (music) In music, a tone row or note row (german: Reihe or '), also series or set, is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller set ...

Prime Boys Prime Boys are a Canadian hip hop collective based in Toronto, Ontario. The original group carnation consists of Jay Whiss, Jimmy Prime and Donnie and the trio released their debut studio album '' Koba World'' on July 27, 2018. Background The tr ...

, Canadian hip hop collective *

Prime (percussion) A gongFrom Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs ...

, to lightly strike an instrument such as a gong in preparation for playing *

Prime form (music) A set (pitch set, pitch-class set, set class, set form, set genus, pitch collection) in music theory, as in mathematics and general parlance, is a collection of objects. In musical contexts the term is traditionally applied most often to colle ...

Unison In music, unison is two or more musical parts that sound either the same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at the same time. ''Rhythmic unison'' is another term for homorhythm. Definition Unison or pe ...

, an interval also called a ''prime''

Television channels

Prime (Canadian TV channel) DTour (styled as DTOUR) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel was originally established by Canwest in 1997 as Prime, a cable companion to Global with a general entertainment format focusi ...

or DTour *

Prime (Moldovan TV channel) Prime is a Moldovan generalist television channel. The channel is distributed via DVB-T2, by the cable and IPTV operators in Moldova and broadcasts through analogue terrestrial television at a national level. The owner of the channel is Moldova ...

Prime (New Zealand TV channel) Prime is a New Zealand free-to-air television network. It airs a varied mix of programming, largely imported from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was originally owned by Prime Television Limited in Australia. Prime late ...

Prime TV (Sri Lanka) Prime TV is a television channel which broadcasts in Sri Lanka. The channel is operated by the Independent Television Network Limited, which is a state governed television and radio broadcaster in Sri Lanka.The channel broadcasts content in the ...

* AFN Prime, part of the

American Forces Network The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the U.S. military provides to those stationed or assigned overseas. Headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, AFN's broadcast operations, which i ...

BBC Prime BBC Prime was the BBC's general entertainment TV channel in Europe, Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Asia Pacific from 30 January 1995 until 11 November 2009, when it was replaced by BBC Entertainment. Launch BBC Prime was launched a ...

, a television channel in Europe and the Middle East *

Prime Media Group Prime Media Group Limited (formerly Prime Television Limited) was an Australian-based media corporation that formerly owned regional television network Prime7 in eastern Australia and GWN7 in regional Western Australia. It also owned ishop ...

, an Australian media corporation *

Prime Network Prime Sports (originally known as the Prime Sports Network (PSN), and also known as Prime Network or simply Prime) is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that were owned by Liberty Media, oper ...

, a defunct cable sports network in the United States *

Prime Televisie ''Play More'' is a Belgium, Belgian Pay television, premium television service owned by Telenet (Belgium), Telenet, the Belgian content division of Liberty Global. Prime launched together with its sister service Prime Sport (later Sporting Telene ...

, a Flemish pay television channel *

Prime7 Prime7, formerly Prime Television and other names, was an Australian television network. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as ''CBN-8'' in Orange, and later expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capi ...

, a television network in Australia owned by Prime Media * PRIME, a Hungarian television channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Prime'' (film), a 2005 romantic comedy *

Prime lens In film and photography, a prime lens is a fixed focal length photographic lens (as opposed to a zoom lens), typically with a maximum aperture from f2.8 to f1.2. The term can also mean the primary lens in a combination lens system. Confusion b ...

, a lens which has a fixed focal length, in film and photography * ''Prime Number'' (short story collection), a short story collection by Harry Harrison *

Prime time Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...

, a block of slots each evening in broadcast programming *

Prime version In the art world, if an artwork exists in several versions, the one known or believed to be the earliest is called the prime version. Many artworks produced in media such as painting or carved sculpture which create unique objects are in fact r ...

, the original version of an artwork existing in several versions

Brands and enterprises

Amazon Prime Amazon Prime is a paid subscription service from Amazon which is available in various countries and gives users access to additional services otherwise unavailable or available at a premium to other Amazon customers. Services include same, one ...

, a subscription service of Amazon.com *

Prime Books Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, '' Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' ...

, an American publisher *

Prime Hydration Prime (styled as PRIME) is a sports drink created and marketed by Prime Hydration, LLC. The company was founded and is primarily promoted by YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI. History On January 4, 2022, Logan Paul and KSI went live together o ...

, a sports drink brand

Finance

Prime (finance) In finance, subprime lending (also referred to as near-prime, subpar, non-prime, and second-chance lending) is the provision of loans to people in the United States who may have difficulty maintaining the repayment schedule. Historically, subpri ...

Prime rate A prime rate or prime lending rate is an interest rate used by banks, usually the interest rate at which banks lend to customers with good credit. Some variable interest rates may be expressed as a percentage above or below prime rate. Use in dif ...

, a rate of interest applied in banking

Mathematics

Prime (order theory) In mathematics, an element ''p'' of a partial order (P, ≤) is a meet prime element when ''p'' is the principal element of a principal prime ideal. Equivalently, if ''P'' is a lattice, ''p'' ≠ ''top'', and for all ''a'', ''b'' in ''P'', :''a' ...

Prime 3-manifold In mathematics, the prime decomposition theorem for 3-manifolds states that every compact, orientable 3-manifold is the connected sum of a unique (up to homeomorphism) finite collection of prime 3-manifolds. A manifold is ''prime'' if it cannot ...

, a 3-manifold that cannot be written as the connect sum of two nontrivial 3-manifolds * Prime element, in algebra *

Prime form In algebraic geometry, the Schottky–Klein prime form ''E''(''x'',''y'') of a compact Riemann surface ''X'' depends on two elements ''x'' and ''y'' of ''X'', and vanishes if and only if ''x'' = ''y''. The prime form ''E'' is not quite ...

of a Riemann surface * Prime ideal, a subset of a ring *

Prime knot In knot theory, a prime knot or prime link is a knot that is, in a certain sense, indecomposable. Specifically, it is a non- trivial knot which cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots. Knots that are not prime are said to be ...

, a knot that cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots in knot theory *

Prime polynomial In mathematics, an irreducible polynomial is, roughly speaking, a polynomial that cannot be factored into the product of two non-constant polynomials. The property of irreducibility depends on the nature of the coefficients that are accepted f ...

People

Prime (graffiti artist) Jose "Prime" Reza, (b. October 5, 1971) is an American graffiti artist born and raised in the Pico-Union District of Downtown Los Angeles. Prime is credited with being a founding father of Los Angeles stylized graffiti lettering, a hybrid of Cho ...

(born 1971) or Jose Reza *

Prime (surname) Prime is a surname found primarily in the United Kingdom and its former colonies. People * Anita Prime, New Zealand singer-songwriter * Audrey Prime (1915–2001), British trade unionist * Barry Prime (born 1954), British swimmer * Benjamin Prim ...

Science and technology

PRIME (PLC) PRIME (an acronym for "powerline intelligent metering evolution") is a specification for narrow band powerline communication published by the PRIME Alliance consortium. Powerline communication uses power lines as transmission media. PRIME was co ...

, a power line communication standard *

PRIME (PRobe Incorporation Mediated by Enzymes) PRIME (probe incorporation mediated by enzymes) is a molecular biology research tool developed by Alice Y. Ting and the Ting Lab at MIT for site-specific labeling of proteins in living cells with chemical probes. Probes often have useful biophysical ...

, a molecular biology research tool *

Prime editing Prime editing is a 'search-and-replace' genome editing technology in molecular biology by which the genome of living organisms may be modified. The technology directly writes new genetic information into a targeted DNA site. It uses a fusion protein ...

, a gene editing technique * PRIME, a GPU offloading solution for the Linux kernel, used in the

Direct Rendering Manager The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU and perform operations ...

HP Prime The HP Prime Graphing Calculator is a graphing calculator introduced by Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and currently manufactured by HP Inc. It was designed with features resembling those of smartphones, such as a full-color touchscreen display and th ...

, a graphing calculator model *

Prime Computer Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. With the advent of PCs and the decline of the minicomputer industry, Prime was forced out of the market in the early 1990s, and by the end of ...

, a producer of minicomputers

Sports

Prime F.C. Osun United Football Club is a Nigerian football club, in the town of Osogbo, in Osun State.The club is also nicknamed Omoluabi Giants. History Prime FC was founded 1996 by authorities of Osogbo Local Government and play its home games in th ...

, a Nigerian football club *

Prime parry A parry is a fencing bladework maneuver intended to deflect or block an incoming attack. Execution To execute a parry, fencers strike the opponent's foible, or the area near the tip of the blade, with their forte, or the part of the blade nea ...

, a parry form in fencing * Prime (cycling), an intermediate sprint within a bicycle race

Vehicles

* Edel Prime Bi, a South Korean paraglider design *

Prius Prime The Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid (often abbreviated as the Prius and known as the Prius Prime in North America, South Korea, and New Zealand) is a plug-in hybrid liftback manufactured by Toyota. The first-generation model was produced from 2012 t ...

, an automobile * USS ''Prime'' (AM-279), a minesweeper in naval service 1944–46 * USS ''Prime'' (AM-466), a minesweeper commissioned in 1954 *

X-23 PRIME The Martin X-23A PRIME (Precision Reentry Including Maneuvering reEntry) (SV-5D) was a small lifting-body re-entry vehicle tested by the United States Air Force in the mid-1960s. Unlike ASSET, primarily used for structural and heating research ...

, an experimental re-entry vehicle

Other uses

Prime (liturgy) Prime, or the First Hour, is one of the canonical hours of the Divine Office, said at the first hour of daylight (6:00 a.m. at the equinoxes but earlier in summer, later in winter), between the dawn hour of Lauds and the 9 a.m. hour of Terc ...

, a canonical hour *

Prime (symbol) The prime symbol , double prime symbol , triple prime symbol , and quadruple prime symbol are used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, science, linguistics and music. Although the characters differ little in appearance f ...

, the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix * Prime, a

beef carcass classification Countries regulate the marketing and sale of beef by observing criteria of cattle carcasses at the abattoir (slaughterhouse) and classifying the carcasses. This classification, sometimes optional, can suggest a market demand for a particular ani ...

* Prime color *

Prime model In mathematics, and in particular model theory, a prime model is a model that is as simple as possible. Specifically, a model P is prime if it admits an elementary embedding into any model M to which it is elementarily equivalent (that is, into ...

, as simple a model as possible in model theory *

Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools #REDIRECT Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools {{R from other capitalisation ...

, a programme of the Singapore Ministry of Education * Prime years, the ideal or perfect age