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Primary or primaries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
editMusic
editGroups and labels
edit- Primary (band), from Australia
- Primary (musician), hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
- Primary Music, Israeli record label
Works
edit- Primary (album) by Rubicon (2002)
- "Primary" (song) by The Cure
- "Primary", song by Spoon from the album Telephono
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series Lensman
- Primary (film), American political documentary (1960)
Computing
edit- PRIMARY, an X Window selection
- Primary data storage, computer technology used to retain digital data
- Primary server, main server on the server farm
Education
edit- Primary education, the first stage of compulsory education
- Primary FRCA, academic examination for anaesthetists in the U.K.
- Primary school, school providing primary education
Mathematics
edit- p-group of prime power order
- Primary decomposition into primary ideals
- Primary ideals, concept in commutative algebra
- Primary number, positive integer power of a prime number
Politics
edit- Primary elections or primaries, elections held to determine which candidates will run for an upcoming general election
- Primary vote, the total of first-preference votes in the Australian electoral system
Science and mechanics
edit- Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies
- Primary (chemistry), term used in organic chemistry
- Primary, the oldest period in the Geologic time scale (obsolete)
- Primary, a stage in a thermonuclear explosive
- Primary circuit, electrical circuit in a transformer that receives current, as opposed to secondary circuit
- Primary field, type of field in conformal field theory
- Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope
- Primary power line, electric power transmission line fed to or from a transformer
- Primary feathers, flight feathers attached to the manus ("hand") in the wings of birds
- Primary color
Other uses
edit- Primary (LDS Church), a children's Sunday School organization
- Primary (musician) (born 1983), South Korean
- Primary data (or raw data), a term for data collected from a source
- Primary Flight Training, in the U.S. Navy
- Primary source, original materials
- Primary disease, a disease that is due to a root cause of illness
- Christian Science practitioner#Primary class instruction