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primary

adjective
  1. not derived from or reducible to something else
  2. of primary importance
    basal
  3. of first rank or importance or value
  4. of or being the essential or basic part
    elementaryelemental
  5. most important element
    main
noun
  1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
    primary election
  2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
    primary featherprimary quill
  3. 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”
    primary coilprimary winding
  4. (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it