单词 | primality |
释义 | primalityn. 1. As a count noun: a primal thing; an essential or fundamental concept. As a mass noun: the quality or condition of being primal; primacy. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] primacyc1384 principalitya1398 pre-eminencec1460 principalness1530 supremacy1579 firsthood1619 transeminency1660 supremeness1665 primality1667 giantship1847 premiership1850 supremity1882 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > essential or central pitheOE effectc1405 substancec1450 kernel1556 nick1577 keystone1641 vitals1657 narrow1702 secret1738 ganglion1828 nub1833 primality1846 keyword1848 knub1864 buzzword1946 in word1964 1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. ii. iv. 232 Few of the Heathens knew God in his Unity; and fewer in the Trinity of his Essential Primalities. 1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 234 As Campenella saith, The abuse of the Potestative Primality is Tyranny..and the abuse of the Volitive Primality is Hypocrisie. 1737 J. Taylor Narr. J. Rawson's Case 14 High swelling words of Vanity; such as..Formalities, Essentialities, Primalities. 1846 T. W. Jenkyn Baxter's Wks. Pref. Ess. 51 The perspicacity necessary for detecting the trinal ‘primalities’ as they develope themselves in the phenomena of the Universe. 1895 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 5 350 Sometimes the two words are distinguished, while the things are confounded, as well when he treats of the ‘primalities’ (velle, nosse, posse) which are unified in the divine Essence. 1920 B. Wendell Trad. European Lit. ii. ii. 237 Nothing could ever deprive Greece of her primality. 1972 Renaissance Q. 25 84 Each primality takes several forms, each works its way into the natural world. 1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 52/2 A longish and highly concentrated piece which builds to a conclusion enigmatically fraught with imagery of nature's sinister primality. 2. Mathematics. The property of being a prime number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > prime prime number1570 prime1597 incomposite number1706 irrational1871 primality1908 1908 Amer. Math. Monthly 15 222 An uncertainty runs right through his factorizations as to the primality of the factors, no clue whatever being given as to how the primality was detected. 1958 Computer Jrnl. 1 101/1 It proved possible to test for primality a series of numbers of the form 2k − 1. 1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. 3/2 Numbers that have no special form cannot be tested for primality if they are larger than 100 digits or so. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667 |
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