Prime (disambiguation)

A prime is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.

Prime or PRIME may also refer to:

Fictional characters

 * Prime (comics), a comic book character
 * 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

Television channels

 * Prime (Canadian TV channel) or DTour
 * Prime (Moldovan TV channel)
 * Prime (New Zealand TV channel)
 * Prime TV (Philippine TV channel)
 * Prime TV (Sri Lanka)
 * AFN Prime, part of the American Forces Network
 * BBC Prime, a television channel in Europe and the Middle East
 * Prime Media Group, an Australian media corporation
 * Prime Network, a defunct cable sports network in the United States
 * Prime Televisie, a Flemish pay television channel
 * Prime7, a television network in Australia owned by Prime Media

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

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)

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