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Primer
Primer Prim"er, n.
One who, or that which, primes; specifically, an instrument
or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing
percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of
gunpowder.
PrimerPrimer Prim"er, n. [Originally, the book read at prime, the
first canonical hour. LL. primae liber. See Prime, n., 4.]
1. Originally, a small prayer book for church service,
containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a
work of elementary religious instruction.
The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a
reading or spelling book for a beginner.
As he sat in the school at his prymer. --Chaucer.
3. (Print.) A kind of type, of which there are two species;
one, called long primer, intermediate in size between
bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other,
called great primer, larger than pica.
Note: Great primer type.
Meaning of Primers from wikipedia
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Berdan primers used in
modern centerfire cartridges Detonator, a
small explosive device also
known as an
explosive primer or
blasting cap
Friction primer, an...
- and
polymerase chain reaction)
usually use DNA
primers,
since they are more
temperature stable.
Primers can be
designed in
laboratory for
specific reactions...
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region of DNA;
without primers,
there is no double-stranded
initiation site at
which the
polymerase can bind);
specific primers that are complementary...
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primers are
similar to the caps used in the
caplock system,
being small metal cups with pressure-sensitive
explosive in them.
Modern Berdan primers are...
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printed primer. It
presented the
alphabet and
several Catholic prayers.
Other historical examples of
primers for
children include: The New
England Primer (1680s)...
- with
integral electric primers. Upon
being struck with
sufficient force generated by the
firing pin, or
electrically ignited,
primers react chemically to...
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Plymouth Routines In
Multivariate Ecological Research (
PRIMER) is a
statistical package that is a
collection of
specialist univariate, multivariate, and...
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Primer is a 2004
American independent science fiction film
about the
accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed, produced, edited...
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There are also
foundation primers,
which are mineral-based
primers which contain mica and silica.
Eyelid or eye
shadow primers are
similar but made specifically...
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temperature such that the
primer will
anneal to its
target sequence, but not to
other chimeric primers. Blocked-cleavable
primers: a
method known as RNase...
