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单词 primality
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primalityn.

Brit. /prʌɪˈmalᵻti/, U.S. /praɪˈmælədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: primal adj., -ity suffix, prime adj., -al suffix1.
Etymology: < primal adj. + -ity suffix. In sense 1 apparently originally after post-classical Latin primalitas (1636 or earlier in the works of Tomasso Campanella; compare quot. 1670 at sense 1); compare also Italian primalità (a1639). In sense 2, perhaps independently < prime adj. + -al suffix1 + -ity suffix. Compare earlier primalty n., primacy n.
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.
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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.
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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).
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