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'''Primary''' or '''primaries''' may refer to:

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==Arts, entertainment, and media==
===Music===
====Groups and labels====
* [[Primary (band)]], from Australia
* [[Primary (musician)]], hip hop musician and record producer from South Korea
* [[Primary Music]], Israeli record label

====Works====
* [[Primary (album)|''Primary'' (album)]]  by Rubicon (2002)
* [[Primary (song)|"Primary" (song)]] by The Cure
* "Primary", song by Spoon from the album ''[[Telephono]]''

===Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media===
* Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series ''[[Lensman]]''
* [[Primary (film)|''Primary'' (film)]], American political  documentary (1960)

==Computing==
* PRIMARY, an [[X Window selection]]
* [[Primary data storage]], computer technology used to retain digital data
* [[Primary server]], main server on the server farm

==Education==
* [[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==
* [[p-group|''p''-group]]  of prime power order
* [[Primary decomposition]] into primary ideals
* [[Primary ideal]]s,  concept in commutative algebra
* [[Primary number]], positive integer power of a prime number

==Politics==
* [[Primary election]]s 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==
* [[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), combining the [[Precambrian]] and [[Paleozoic]]
* Primary, a stage in a [[nuclear weapon design|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==
* [[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]]

==See also==
* [[Binary (disambiguation)]]
* [[Primary group (disambiguation)]]
* [[Second (disambiguation)]]
* [[Unary (disambiguation)]]
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* {{intitle|Primary}}

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