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primary

English

🔊 not derived from or reducible to something else
“a primary instinct”
🔊 of first rank or importance or value
“primary goals”
🔊 of or being the essential or basic part
“an elementary need for love and nurturing”
🔊 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”