PRIMARY

Definition of PRIMARY

  1. (noun)a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
  2. (noun)one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
  3. (noun)(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
  4. (noun)coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
  5. (adj)of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
  6. (adj)not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
  7. (adj)most important element
  8. (adj)of or being the essential or basic part