Primary

Primary may refer to:

Arts and culture

• Primary (film), 1960 documentary
• Primary (band), from Australia
• Primary (musician), a South Korean musician
• "Primary" (song), by The Cure
• Primary Music, Israeli record label
• "Primary", a song by Spoon from the album Telephono
• Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series Lensman

Computing

• Primary data storage, a computer technology used to retain digital data
• Primary server, main server on the server farm
• PRIMARY, an X Window selection

Mathematics

• Prime power, positive integer power of a prime number
• Primary decomposition, a decomposition into primary ideals
• p-group, a group of prime power order
• Primary ideals, a concept in commutative algebra

Politics

• Primary election, an election by which a political party selects and nominates a candidate
• Primary vote, the first vote total in the Electoral system of Australia

Science and mechanics

• Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies
• Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
• Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
• Primary field, a type of field in conformal field theory
• Power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
• Primary, the oldest period in the Geologic time scale (obsolete)
• Primaries, remiges (wing feathers) in birds
• The first stage in a thermonuclear explosive, may also be used alone in a lower-yield nuclear explosive, see nuclear weapon design

Other

• Primary (LDS Church), children's Sunday School organization
• Primary data (or raw data), a term for data collected from a source
• Primary education, the first stage of compulsory education
• Primary Flight Training, in the U.S. Navy
• Primary FRCA, academic examination for anaesthetists in the U.K.
• Primary school, a school providing primary education
• Primary source, original materials

See also

• Primary group (disambiguation)