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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:

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==Arts, entertainment, and media==
=== Fictional characters ===
* [[Prime (comics)]], a comic book character
* [[Dyson Aliens]] or The Primes, aliens in Peter Hamilton's ''Commonwealth Saga''

===Music===
* [[Prime (music)]]
* [[Prime Boys]], Canadian hip hop collective
* [[Prime (percussion)]], to lightly strike an instrument such as a gong in preparation for playing
* [[Prime form (music)]]
* [[Unison]], an interval also called a ''prime''
* [[Prime (album)|''Prime'' (album)]], an album by Christian McBride
* "Prime", a song by Marnie Stern from ''[[This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That]]'', 2008

=== Television channels {{anchor|Television}} ===
* [[Prime (Canadian TV channel)]], the former name of Canadian cable channel DTour
* [[Prime TV (Philippine TV channel)]]
* [[Prime TV (Dom Eliseu)]], a local television station in Pará, Brazil
* [[Prime (Moldovan TV channel)]]
* [[Prime (New Zealand TV channel)]]
* [[Prime TV (Sri Lanka)]], a defunct Sri Lankan television channel
* [[AFN Prime]], part of the American Forces Network
* [[BBC Prime]], a defunct television channel in Europe and the Middle East
* [[Prime Sports|Prime Network]], a defunct cable sports network in the United States
* [[Prime Televisie]], the former name of Flemish pay television channel More Play
* [[Prime7]], a television network in Australia owned by Prime Media

===Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media===
* [[Prime (film)|''Prime'' (film)]], a 2005 romantic comedy
* [[Prime lens]], a lens which has a fixed focal length, in film and photography
* [[Prime Number (short story collection)|''Prime Number'' (short story collection)]], a short story collection by Harry Harrison
* [[Prime time]], a block of slots each evening in broadcast programming
* [[Prime version]], the original version of an artwork existing in several versions
* ''[[Sonic Prime]]'', a 2022 TV show in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

==Brands and enterprises==
* [[Amazon Prime]], a subscription service of <nowiki>Amazon.com</nowiki>
* [[Prime (drink)]], a brand of beverages
* [[Prime Books]], an American publisher
* [[Prime Broadcasting Network]], a radio broadcasting network in the Philippines
* [[Prime Media Group]], a defunct Australian media corporation
* [[Prime Media Holdings]], an investment holding company in the Philippines

==Finance==
* [[Prime (finance)]]
* [[Prime rate]], a rate of interest applied in banking

== Mathematics ==
* [[Prime (order theory)]]
* [[Prime 3-manifold]], a 3-manifold that cannot be written as the connect sum of two nontrivial 3-manifolds
* [[Prime element]], in algebra
* [[Prime form]] of a Riemann surface
* [[Prime ideal]], a subset of a ring
* [[Prime knot]], a knot that cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots in knot theory
* [[Prime model]], as simple a model as possible in model theory
* [[Prime polynomial]]

==People==
* [[Prime (graffiti artist)]] (born 1971) or Jose Reza
* [[Prime (surname)]] 

==Science and technology==
* a psychological stimulus which causes [[priming (psychology)|priming]]
* [[PRIME (power-line communication)]], a power-line communication standard
* [[PRIME (labeling technique)]], probe incorporation mediated by enzymes, a molecular biology research tool
* [[Prime editing]], a gene editing technique
* PRIME, a GPU offloading solution for the Linux kernel, used in the [[Direct Rendering Manager#DMA Buffer Sharing and PRIME|Direct Rendering Manager]]
* [[HP Prime]], a graphing calculator model
* [[Prime Computer]], a producer of minicomputers

==Sports==
* [[Prime F.C.]], a Nigerian football club
* [[Prime parry]], a parry form in fencing
* [[Prime (cycling)]], an intermediate sprint within a bicycle race

==Vehicles==
* [[Edel Prime Bi]], a South Korean paraglider design
* [[Prius Prime]], an automobile
* [[USS Prime (AM-279)|USS ''Prime'' (AM-279)]], a minesweeper in naval service 1944–46
* [[USS Prime (AM-466)|USS ''Prime'' (AM-466)]], a minesweeper commissioned in 1954
* [[X-23 PRIME]], an experimental re-entry vehicle

==Other uses==
* [[Prime (liturgy)]], a canonical hour
* [[Prime (symbol)]], the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix
* Prime, a grading of meat in [[beef carcass classification]]
* Prime rib, or [[standing rib roast]], a cut of beef from the primal rib, one of the primal cuts of beef
* [[Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools]], a programme of the Singapore Ministry of Education
* [[Prime years]], the ideal or perfect age

==See also==
* [[E-Prime]], a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of "to be"
* [[Prima (disambiguation)]]
* [[Primal (disambiguation)]]
* [[Primer (disambiguation)]]
* [[Priming (disambiguation)]]
* [[Primus (disambiguation)]]

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