prime

The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

The religious service appointed to this hour.

The early morning generally.

The earliest stage of something.

The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.

The chief or best individual or part.

The first note or tone of a musical scale.

The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.

A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.

Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.

The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.

Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.

The priming in a flintlock.

Contraction of prime lens, a film lens