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Meaning:
Adjective:
- biology Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
- Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.
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Noun:
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- programming A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- mathematics A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
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