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primes - definition and meaning
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noun prime .verb prime .
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Having Ovechkin, Backstrom, Green and Carlson in their primes is a downright scary proposition for other Eastern Conference teams.
Analysis: Constructing a Stanley Cup winner Box Seats blogger 2010
The team was never the same after the trade, but taking a game from a Lakers team with Kobe and Shaq both in their primes is still quite a feat.
Matthew Yglesias » The Chemistry Experiment 2009
I don't want to distract from the substantive discussions, but the numerology of primes is always fun.
A Message About ID 2007
One note: The code below references a list of prime numbers called primes , which is not shown.
MSDN Blogs MattManela 2009
While the little girls -- the "primes " -- were frankly curious, and could scarcely keep their gaze off Rhoda at meals, or in the main hall at chapel.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr
He told the assemblage that the Pentagon would frown on mergers among the five giant military contractors - the so-called primes :
NYT > Home Page By JOE NOCERA 2011
Euclid's trick of multiplying all the primes and adding one is so good that it would be a shame if the infinitude of the primes was the only thing we could prove with it.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010
And you won't need to change them as often as in system based on primes , which is quite an important factor for a photographer who lives and works in dusty environment. whoa whoa ... take it easy spending tons of money on a camera lol ...
X-bit labs 2009
But the reality is, even more people get emotionally crushed in the so-called primes of their lives -- not necessarily by something that could kill them, but it could kill their spirit.
ESPNsoccernet 2009
The "primes " contract the "subs" for specific tasks and "there is no contract of any magnitude that doesn't have a bevy of subs," the company official said.
Afghanistan's push to tax U.S. contractors could renew tensions Karen DeYoung 2011
oroboros commented on the word primes
In wordplay, letters whose positions in the alphabet are prime numbers: b,c,e,g,k,m,q,s,w.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay
May 23, 2008