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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:*Prime , the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix...

is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.

Prime or PRIME may also refer to:

In mathematics:
  • Prime (symbol)
    Prime (symbol)
    The prime symbol , double prime symbol , and triple prime symbol , etc., are used to designate several different units, and for various other purposes in mathematics, the sciences and linguistics...

    , the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix
  • Prime 3-manifold, a 3-manifold that cannot be written as the connect sum of two nontrivial 3-manifolds
  • Prime knot
    Prime knot
    In knot theory, a prime knot is a knot that is, in a certain sense, indecomposable. Specifically, it is a non-trivial knot which cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots. Knots that are not prime are said to be composite. It can be a nontrivial problem to determine whether a...

    , a knot that cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots in knot theory


In popular culture:
  • Prime (film)
    Prime (film)
    Prime is a 2005 American romantic comedy film starring Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep and Bryan Greenberg. It was written and directed by Ben Younger...

    , a romantic comedy
  • Prime (comics)
    Prime (comics)
    Prime is a superhero created by Bob Jacob, Gerard Jones, Len Strazewski, and Norm Breyfogle. He debuted in Prime #1 under Malibu Comics' Ultraverse imprint, and was one of its flagship characters along with Mantra and Hardcase . The character design was credited to Bret Blevins...

    , a graphic novel character
  • Prime (Transformers)
    Prime (Transformers)
    Prime is a title in Transformers fiction, the designation given to the leader of the Autobots and bearer of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. The Japanese equivalent of Prime is Convoy, sometimes explained in Western Transformers folklore as an honorific nickname given to Autobots who possess the...

    , a title used by Autobot leaders in Transformers
  • Dyson Aliens or The Primes, aliens in Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga


In television:
  • AFN Prime, part of the American Forces Network
    American Forces Network
    The American Forces Network is the brand name used by the United States Armed Forces American Forces Radio and Television Service for its entertainment and command internal information networks worldwide...

  • BBC Prime
    BBC Prime
    BBC Prime was the BBC's general entertainment TV channel in Europe and the Middle East from 30 January 1995 until 11 November 2009, when it was replaced by BBC Entertainment.-Launch:...

    , a television channel in Europe and the Middle East
  • Prime Network
    Prime Network
    The Prime Network was a group of regional sports networks owned by Liberty Media that served several regionalized areas that was in operation between 1983 and late-1997. While Liberty owned many of these stations, some were affiliates and owned by other companies...

    , a defunct cable sports network in the United States
  • Prime Televisie, a Flemish pay television channel
  • Prime Media Group, an Australian media corporation
    • Prime Television
      Prime Television
      PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...

      , a television network in Australia owned by Prime Media
  • Prime (New Zealand)
  • TVtropolis
    TVtropolis
    TVtropolis is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Shaw Media and Rogers Media.The channel operates two time shifted feeds: East and West .-Programming:...

     or Prime, a CanWest-owned Canadian television channel


In other uses:
  • Prime Computer
    Prime Computer
    Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. The alternative spellings "PR1ME" and "PR1ME Computer" were used as brand names or logos by the company.-Founders:...

    , a producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992, whose logo was stylized as Pr1me Computer
  • Prime F.C.
    Prime F.C.
    Prime Football Club is a Nigerian football club, in the town of Oshogbo, in Osun State. They play in the second level of professional football in Nigeria, the Nigeria National League after relegation from the Nigeria Premier League in 2008....

    , a Nigerian football club
  • Prime, Inc.
    Prime, Inc.
    Prime, Inc. is a trucking company which was founded in 1970 and is currently headquartered in Springfield, Missouri. The company currently operates three divisions; flatbed, refrigerated and tanker. It is the second largest refrigerated carrier operating in the United States.Currently, Prime, Inc...

    , an American trucking company
  • Prime (liturgy)
    Prime (liturgy)
    Prime, or the First Hour, is a fixed time of prayer of the traditional Divine Office , said at the first hour of daylight , between the morning Hour of Lauds and the 9 a.m. Hour of Terce. It is part of the Christian liturgies of Eastern Christianity, but in the Latin Rite it was suppressed by the...

    , a liturgical office (service or ceremony)
  • X-23 PRIME, an experimental re-entry vehicle
  • Prime Group
    Prime Group
    Prime Group is a Swedish company founded by Carl Fredrik Sammeli and Folke Hammarlind in 1998. The group consists of the communication consultancy Prime PR and United Minds, offering comprehensive business intelligence services....

    , a Swedish strategic communication consultancy
  • Programme for Rebuilding and IMproving Existing schools
    Programme For Rebuilding and IMproving Existing schools
    Programme for Rebuilding and IMproving Existing schools is a programme initiated by the Ministry of Education in 1999 to upgrade and rebuild school buildings in Singapore.-Flexible School Infrastructure :...

    , a programme of the Singapore Ministry of Education
  • Peg Restrained Intrinsic Muscle Evaluator
    Peg Restrained Intrinsic Muscle Evaluator
    The PRIME is a device created by Jennifer Cieluch, Caterina Kaffes, Matthew Miller, Neel Shah and Shuai "Steve" Xu. It is used to measure Intrinsic muscles...

    , a device for measuring the strength of intrinsic hand muscles
  • PRIME, a standard definition narrow-band Power line communication
    Power line communication
    Power line communication or power line carrier , also known as power line digital subscriber line , mains communication, power line telecom , power line networking , or broadband over power lines are systems for carrying data on a conductor also used for electric power transmission.A wide range...

  • Priming, to start up a pump
  • Prime, a term in social cognition
    Social cognition
    Social cognition is the encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing, in the brain, of information relating to conspecifics, or members of the same species. At one time social cognition referred specifically to an approach to social psychology in which these processes were studied according to the...

     referring to an environmental trigger of cognitive processes

People with the surname

  • Samuel I. Prime
    Samuel I. Prime
    Samuel Irenæus Prime was an American clergyman, traveler, and writer. He was born at Ballston, N. Y., and graduated from Williams College in 1829. Three years later he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, was licensed to preach in 1833, and in 1835 was installed pastor of the Presbyterian...

     (1812–1885), American clergyman, traveller, and writer
  • Geoffrey Prime
    Geoffrey Prime
    Geoffrey Prime is a British former spy for the Soviet Union while working for the Royal Air Force and later for Government Communications Headquarters, the British cryptography agency, during the 1960s and 1970s...

     (born 1938), British spy

See also

  • Prime element
    Prime element
    In abstract algebra, an element p of a commutative ring R is said to be prime if it is not zero, not a unit and whenever p divides ab for some a and b in R, then p divides a or p divides b...

  • Prime ideal
    Prime ideal
    In algebra , a prime ideal is a subset of a ring which shares many important properties of a prime number in the ring of integers...

    , a subset of a ring
  • Prime model
    Prime model
    In mathematics, and in particular model theory, a prime model is a model which is as simple as possible. Specifically, a model P is prime if it admits an elementary embedding into any model M to which it is elementarily equivalent .- Cardinality :In contrast with the notion of saturated model,...

    , as simple a model as possible in model theory
  • Relatively prime, two numbers whose greatest common divisor is 1
  • Prime form in music
  • Prime lens
    Prime lens
    In film and photography, a prime lens is either a photographic lens whose focal length is fixed, as opposed to a zoom lens, or it is the primary lens in a combination lens system....

    , is a lens which has a fixed focal length, in film and photography
  • Prime Minister
    Prime minister
    A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...

    , the highest executive office with real powers in certain governments
  • Prime rate
    Prime rate
    Prime rate or prime lending rate is a term applied in many countries to a reference interest rate used by banks. The term originally indicated the rate of interest at which banks lent to favored customers, i.e., those with high credibility, though this is no longer always the case...

    , of interest applied in banking
  • Prime time
    Prime time
    Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 or 20:00 to 23:00 Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast...

    , a block of slots each evening in broadcast programming
  • E-Prime
    E-Prime
    E-Prime is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be. E-Prime does not allow conjugations of to be , archaic forms E-Prime (short for English-Prime, sometimes denoted E′) is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be. E-Prime does...

    , a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of "to be"
  • Metroid Prime
    Metroid Prime
    Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America on November 17, 2002...

    , a game in Nintendo's Metroid franchise
  • Directionality (molecular biology)
    Directionality (molecular biology)
    Directionality, in molecular biology and biochemistry, is the end-to-end chemical orientation of a single strand of nucleic acid. The chemical convention of naming carbon atoms in the nucleotide sugar-ring numerically gives rise to a 5′-end and a 3′-end...

    , 3′ (3 prime) and 5′ (5 prime) ends in biochemistry
  • Prime parry, a parry form in fencing
    Parry (fencing)
    A parry is a fencing bladework manoeuvre intended to deflect or block an incoming attack.-Execution:To execute a parry, fencers strike the opponent's foible, or the area near the tip of the blade, with their forte, or the part of the blade near the handle of the sword...

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