Meaning : A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.
Synonyms : primary election
Meaning : One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.
Synonyms : primary feather, primary quill
Meaning : (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it.
Meaning : Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit.
Example :
Current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil.
Synonyms : primary coil, primary winding
Meaning : Of first rank or importance or value. Direct and immediate rather than secondary.
Example :
Primary goals.
A primary effect.
Primary sources.
A primary interest.
Being of second rank or importance or value. Not direct or immediate.
The stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher.Meaning : Not derived from or reducible to something else. Basic.
Example :
A primary instinct.
Meaning : Of or being the essential or basic part.
Example :
An elementary need for love and nurturing.
A basal reader.
Synonyms : basal, elemental, elementary