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a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird''s wing not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct" underived of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest" capital, direct, firsthand, first-string, original, particular of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" basic coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit; "current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil" of primary importance; "basic truths" essential |
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