Primary or primaries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
Groups and labels
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Primary (band)
Primary were an Australian electronic rock band which formed in 1995 the Fonti brothers: Jamie on keyboards and Sean on bass guitar (both ex-Caligula), and Connie Mitchell on lead vocals. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, th ...
, from Australia
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Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
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Primary Music
Primary Music is an Israeli independent record label, specializing in World Music, New Age, Lounge and ambient. Primary Music is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In September 2003, having quit her former label, world music singer Suzy established ' ...
, Israeli record label
Works
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''Primary'' (album) by Rubicon (2002)
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"Primary" (song) by The Cure
* "Primary", song by Spoon from the album ''
Telephono''
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
* Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series ''
Lensman''
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''Primary'' (film), American political documentary (1960)
Computing
* PRIMARY, an
X Window selection
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Primary data storage, computer technology used to retain digital data
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Primary server, main server on the server farm
Education
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Primary education, the first stage of compulsory education
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Primary FRCA, academic examination for anaesthetists in the U.K.
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Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
, school providing primary education
Mathematics
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''p''-group of prime power order
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Primary decomposition into primary ideals
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Primary ideals, concept in commutative algebra
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Primary number, positive integer power of a prime number
Politics
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Primary election, 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
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Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies
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Primary (chemistry), term used in organic chemistry
* Primary, the oldest period in the
Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale, or geological time scale, (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochr ...
(obsolete)
* Primary, a stage in a
thermonuclear explosive
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Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
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Primary field, type of field in conformal field theory
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Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
* Primary
power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
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Primary feathers, flight feathers attached to the manus ("hand") in the wings of birds
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Primary color
Other uses
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Primary (LDS Church)
The Primary (formerly the Primary Association) is a children's organization and an official organization within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It acts as a Sunday school organization for the church's children ( ...
, a children's Sunday School organization
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Primary (musician) (born 1983), South Korean
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Primary data (or raw data), a term for data collected from a source
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Primary Flight Training, in the U.S. Navy
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Primary source
In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under ...
, original materials
* Primary
disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that a ...
, a disease that is due to a root cause of illness
See also
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Binary (disambiguation)
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Primary group (disambiguation)
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Second (disambiguation)
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Unary (disambiguation)
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