primaries是什么意思？

primaries

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• n. [电工学]初级线圈( primary的名词复数 )，[天文学]本行星，[核物理学]初级宇宙线，党内初选；

例句

• State by state, results from primaries narrow the field. 各州的初选结果相继产生, 将竞选范围缩小.
• The mixing of additive primaries to match a specific colour. 混和加色法原色,使它与某一指定颜色相似.
• Complementary to the three additive light primaries, there are three subtractive primaries. 与加色法三原色互为补色的颜色为减色法三原色.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ
  首要的；主要的
  You use primary to describe something that is very important.
  例句
  That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well... 这是公司股票价格一直居高不下的主要原因。 I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk... 我觉得年轻人生活的主要目标并不是一醉方休。
• ADJ
  （教育）初级的，初等的，小学的
  Primary education is given to pupils between the ages of 5 and 11.
  例句
  Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880... 直到1880年，英国才开始实行初等义务教育。 Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers. 现在，99%的小学生都亲手操作过电脑。
• ADJ
  首先的；最早的；最初的
  Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
  例句
  It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body... 原发性肿瘤并不会置人于死地，致命的是身体其他部位的继发肿瘤。 They have been barred from primary bidding for clients. 他们被禁止对客户进行最初的投标。
• N-COUNT
  （美国）初选，预选
  A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office.
  例句
  ...the 1968 New Hampshire primary... 1968年新罕布什尔州的初选 She won the Democratic primary... 她在民主党的初选中获胜。