Prime (disambiguation)

A prime is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.

Prime or PRIME may also refer to:

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), 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
• "Prime", a song by Sick Individuals, 2015

Television channels

• AFN Prime, part of the American Forces Network
• BBC Prime, a defunct television channel in Europe and the Middle East
• 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
• 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), a 2005 romantic comedy
• Prime lens, a lens which has a fixed focal length, in film and photography
• 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 Amazon.com
• 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
• 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
• 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), a minesweeper in naval service 1944–46
• 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)