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The correct spelling is prime.
How to pronounce prime
/pɹaɪ̯m/
nounIPA: /pɹaɪ̯m/
Say it like: Pri-me
The correct spelling is prime. The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour. For example: "3 is a prime."
Usage Examples
“3 is a prime.”
“I'm threatening to build a prime here.”
“Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- 2.The religious service appointed to this hour.
- 3.The early morning generally.
- 4.The earliest stage of something.
- 5.The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
adjective
- 1.First in importance, degree, or rank.
- 2.First in time, order, or sequence.
- 3.First in excellence, quality, or value.
- 4.(lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- 5.Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
verb
- 1.To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- 2.To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- 3.To be renewed.
- 4.To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- 5.(of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
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