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 (DC Comics), a superhero-turned-supervillain character better known as Superboy-Prime
  • Prime (Malibu Comics), a superhero character
  • Prime (Hasbro), title of the fictional characters Optimus Prime
  • 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
  • Fox Sports (Southeast Asian TV network), formerly known as Prime Sports
  • Prime (Canadian TV channel), the former name of Canadian cable channel DTour
  • PRTV Prime Media, a Philippine television 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 Sports, also known as Prime Sports Network and 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
  • Sports on Amazon Prime Video, streaming and on-demand sports programming available in multiple countries

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 <nowiki>Amazon.com</nowiki>
  • Prime (drink), a brand of beverages
  • Prime Books, an American publisher
  • Prime Broadcasting Network, a radio broadcasting network in the Philippines
  • Prime Inc., an American trucking company
  • Prime Healthcare, an American hospital network
  • Prime Media Group, a defunct Australian media corporation
  • Prime Media Holdings, an investment holding company in the Philippines
  • Prime Medicine, an American biotechnology company

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)
  • Deion Sanders (born 1967), American pro athlete and coach known as Coach Prime

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)