primary

Meanings

• a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
• one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
• (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
• coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
  • "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil"
• of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
  • "primary goals"
  • "a primary effect"
  • "primary sources"
  • "a primary interest"
• not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
  • "a primary instinct"
• most important element
  • "policemen were primary targets"
• of or being the essential or basic part
• of primary importance

Synonyms

basal, chief, elemental, elementary, main, master, primary coil, primary election, primary feather, primary quill, primary winding, principal