Encyclo - De online Nederlandstalige encyclopedie뮠in 驮 oogopslag
Encyclopedia Sources Categories About Encyclo      Enzyklopädie-DE Encyclopedie-NL
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation

Look up: Prime

  1. prime
    [adj] - (math) of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers 2. [adj] - at the best stage 3. [n] - the second canonical hour 4. [n] - the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest 5. [n] - a number that has no factor but itself and ...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Prime
    The second lowest of the five low partials of a bell. This partial is variously called the fundamental, the extra or the second partial.
    Found on http://www.hibberts.co.uk/glossary.htm

  3. Prime
    high line, pronated guard on the non-sword-arm side
    Found on http://www.britishfencing.com/British_Fe

  4. Prime
    parry #1; blade down and to the inside, wrist pronated
    Found on http://www.hpfc.org.uk/glossary.htm

  5. prime
    m is not divisible by the square of any --. Category: Mathematics • to cover(a surface)with a preparatory coat or colour,before painting it Category: Iron and steel industries • to inject fuel directly into the cylinders of an internal combbustion engine,to make starting easier Category: The chemical industry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Prime
    Prime adjective [ French, from Latin primus first, a superl. corresponding to the compar. prior former. See Prior , adjective , Foremost , Former , and confer Prim ,
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/161

  7. Prime
    Prime noun 1. The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring. Chaucer. « In the very prime of the world.» Hooker. « Hope waits up...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/161

  8. Prime
    Prime transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Primed ; present participle & verbal noun Priming .] [ From Prime , adjective ] 1. To apply prim...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/161

  9. Prime
    Prime intransitive verb 1. To be renewed, or as at first. [ Obsolete] « Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.» Quarles. 2. To serve as priming for the char...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/161

  10. Prime
    Prime adjective (Math.) (a) Divisible by no number except itself or unity; as, 7 is a prime number. (b) Having no common factor; -- used with to ; as, 12 is prime to 25.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/161

  11. prime
    1. First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary. 'Prime forests.' 'She was not the prime cause, but I myself.' (Milton) ... In this sense the word is nearly superseded by primitive, except in the phrase prime cost. ... 2. First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  12. prime
    meridian adjective being at the best stage of development; `our manhood`s prime vigor`- Robert Browning
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. prime
    adjective of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers; `prime number`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. prime
    prime quantity noun a number that has no factor but itself and 1
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  15. prime
    prime of life noun the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  16. Prime
    • (a.) Divisible by no number except itself or unity; as, 7 is a prime number. • (a.) Having no common factor; -- used with to; as, 12 is prime to 25. • (v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along wi...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  17. Prime
    (from the article `divine office`) ...are the solemn morning and evening prayers of the church. Terce, Sext, and None correspond to the mid-morning, noon, and mid-afternoon hours. ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/113

  18. prime
    any positive integer greater than 1 that is divisible only by itself and 1; e.g., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, ….[12 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/113

  19. PRIME
    Stands for Prescribed Right to Income and Maximum Equity, a certificate that entitles the owner to the dividend/income from an underlying security, but not to the capital appreciation of that security.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg

  20. prime
    • a number that has no factor but itself and 1
    • the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
    • the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
    • the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest

    Found on

  21. Prime
    Stock that are said to be well finished enough to be ready for slaughter, ie stock that have adequate fat cover and general body shape and composition.
    Found on http://www.mla.com.au/general/glossary

  22. prime
    In painting, a first layer of paint or sizing applied to a surface that is to be painted.
    Found on http://www.ackland.org/tours/classes/glo

  23. Prime
    Soft crab measuring 4
    Found on http://www.bluecrab.info/glossary.html

  24. Prime
    (disambiguation) A `prime` is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. `Prime` or `PRIME` may also refer to: In `mathematics`: In `popular culture`: In `television`: In `other uses`: People with the surname: See also:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime

  25. Prime
    (order theory) In mathematics, an element p of a partial order (P, &le;) is a `meet prime` element when p is the principal element of a principal prime ideal. Equivalently, if P is a lattice, p &ne; top, and for all a, b in P, :<...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime



...

11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

Encyclo in your browser

Encyclo in the search bar of your browser? Click for more info! Would you like to use Encyco more often? Add an (extra) search option to the search field of your browser. Installed in 3 seconds, easy to remove.
More info

Statistics

Encyclo has been online since october 15th 2007. It currently contains 3,485,243 words from 1122 sources. The words are listed in 32 categories.

Search

Type a word and press the `Search` button.

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
lipse (2/3)
swarm (22/25)
Admonitorial (2/0)
Zittau (2/2)
subversion (8/3)
CA125 (2/0)
Chunter (2/0)
Etyma (2/0)
landed (6/13)
hoshi (4/25)
fever, (2/25)
zoite (2/0)
prejudicative (2/0)
kaffiyeh (2/0)
Cable (25/25)
dilute (2/25)
jacaranda (10/6)
jacana (9/3)
Leech (25/25)
rig (3/25)
jacamar (9/0)
Hyposomnia (2/3)
personable (7/3)
stare (10/25)

© Encyclo MMXI
Contact Privacy