Apostrophe vs. Prime

Difference Between Apostrophe and Prime

Apostrophenoun

(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

Primeadjective

First in importance, degree, or rank.

Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.

Apostrophenoun

(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Primeadjective

First in time, order, or sequence.

Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.

Apostrophenoun

address to an absent or imaginary person

Primeadjective

First in excellence, quality, or value.

This is a prime location for a bookstore.

Apostrophenoun

the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Primeadjective

Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).

Thirteen is a prime number.

Primeadjective

Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.

Primeadjective

(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.

Primeadjective

Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.

Primeadjective

Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

Primeadjective

(obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.

Primenoun

(historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

Primenoun

(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.

Primenoun

(obsolete) The early morning generally.

Primenoun

The earliest stage of something.

Primenoun

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

Primenoun

The chief or best individual or part.

Primenoun

(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.

Primenoun

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

Primenoun

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

3 is a prime.

Primenoun

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

Primenoun

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

I'm threatening to build a prime here.

Primenoun

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

Primenoun

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.

Primenoun

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

Primenoun

(obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.

Primenoun

(cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

Primeverb

(transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.

You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.

Primeverb

(transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.

I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.

Primeverb

To be renewed.

Primeverb

(intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

Primeverb

To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.