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1.nounThe first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
2.nounThe religious service appointed to this hour.
3.nounThe early morning generally.
4.nounThe earliest stage of something.
5.nounThe most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
6.nounThe chief or best individual or part.
7.nounThe first note or tone of a musical scale.
8.nounThe first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
9.nounA prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number."3 is a prime."
10.nounA four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
11.nounSix consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing."I'm threatening to build a prime here."
12.nounThe symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
13.nounAny number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
14.nounAn inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
15.nounThe priming in a flintlock.
16.nounContraction of prime lens, a film lens
17.adjectiveFirst in importance, degree, or rank."Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe."
18.adjectiveFirst in time, order, or sequence."Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals."
19.adjectiveFirst in excellence, quality, or value."This is a prime location for a bookstore."
20.adjective(lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers)."Thirteen is a prime number."
21.adjectiveSuch that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
22.adjectiveHaving its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
23.adjectiveMarked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
24.adjectiveEarly; blooming; being in the first stage.
25.adjectiveLecherous, lewd, lustful.