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What does primary mean?

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Adjective
  1. The first in a group or series.
  2. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
  3. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
  4. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
  5. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
  6. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Noun
  1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
  2. The first year of grade school.
  3. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
  4. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
  5. A primary school.
  6. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
  7. A primary colour.
  8. (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Verb
  1. (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
  2. (politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election
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