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 Amazon.com 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)