Meaning

• The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

• The religious service appointed to this hour.

• The early morning generally.

• The earliest stage of something.

• The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

• The chief or best individual or part.

• The first note or tone of a musical scale.

• The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

• A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.

  "3 is a prime."

• A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.

• Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.

  "I'm threatening to build a prime here."

• The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

• Any 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.

• An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.

• The priming in a flintlock.

• Contraction of prime lens, a film lens

Meaning

• First in importance, degree, or rank.

  "Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe."

• First in time, order, or sequence.

  "Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals."

• First in excellence, quality, or value.

  "This is a prime location for a bookstore."

• (lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

  "Thirteen is a prime number."

• Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.

• Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.

• Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

• Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

• Lecherous, lewd, lustful.