primary primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
direct primary | a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
closed primary | a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote, closed primaries strengthen party unity |
open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
primary care | the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere) |
primary censorship | armed forces censorship performed by personnel of a military unit on the personal communications of persons assigned to that unit |
secondary censorship | armed forces censorship of the personal communications of officers or civilian employees or enlisted personnel not subject to primary censorship |
secondary education | education beyond the elementary grades, provided by a high school or college preparatory school |
primary health care | health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system |
primary primary feather primary quill | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
auxiliary storage external storage secondary storage | a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer |
character printer character-at-a-time printer serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
primary coil primary winding primary | 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 |
secondary coil secondary winding secondary | coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil |
storage cell secondary cell | a cell that can be recharged |
voltaic cell galvanic cell primary cell | an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy, cannot be recharged |
character | (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes |
unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
character fiber fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions, education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer |
characteristic | a distinguishing quality |
characteristic device characteristic | any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions |
primary color primary colour | any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
primary color for pigments primary colour for pigments | any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing, the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow |
primary color for light primary colour for light | any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing, the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green |
primary subtractive color for light primary subtractive colour for light | any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light, the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow |
sex characteristic sexual characteristic sex character | those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
primary sex characteristic primary sexual characteristic primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
primary dentition | dentition of deciduous teeth |
secondary dentition | dentition of permanent teeth |
primary tooth deciduous tooth baby tooth milk tooth | one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one ofin children) |
quality character lineament | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something, each town has a quality all its own, the radical character of our demands |
feature characteristic | a prominent attribute or aspect of something, the map showed roads and other features, generosity is one of his best characteristics |
peculiarity distinctive feature distinguishing characteristic | an odd or unusual characteristic |
eigenvalue eigenvalue of a matrix eigenvalue of a square matrix characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
character role theatrical role part persona | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, she played the part of Desdemona |
ASCII character set | (computer science) characters that make up the ASCII coding scheme, the ASCII character set is the most universal character coding set |
character set | an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing |
alphanumerics alphanumeric characters | a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation |
character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
character assassination assassination blackwash | an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation |
characteristic | the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the characteristic is |
character grapheme graphic symbol | a written symbol that is used to represent speech, the Greek alphabet has characters |
check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission |
ASCII character | any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers |
control character ASCII control character | ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace, typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time |
backspace character | a control character that indicates moving a space to the left |
letter letter of the alphabet alphabetic character | the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech, his grandmother taught him his letters |
frequencyesponse curve frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
characteristic curve characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |