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Autochthonous vs Primary - What's the difference?

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Autochthonous is a related term of primary.


In geology|lang=en terms the difference between autochthonous and primary

is that autochthonous is (geology) buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation while primary is (geology) earliest formed; fundamental.

As adjectives the difference between autochthonous and primary

is that autochthonous is native to the place where found; indigenous while primary is the first in a group or series.

As a noun primary is

a primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

As a verb primary is

(us|intransitive) to take part in a primary election.

autochthonous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Native to the place where found; indigenous.
  • * 1889 , Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America , Vol. I, page 375:
  • Two of the most celebrated of the evolutionists reject the autochthonous view, for Darwin's Descent of Man'' and Haeckel's ''Hist. of Creation consider the American man an emigrant from the old world, whatever way the race may have developed
  • * {{quote-book, year= 1983
  • , year_published= , author= (Isaac Asimov) , by= , title= (The Robots of Dawn) , url= , original= , chapter= 22 , section= , isbn= 0-553-29949-2 , edition= , publisher= Bantam Books , location= , editor= , volume= , page= 116 , passage= Only human beings could live on this world and know that they were not autochthonous but had stemmed from Earthmen—and yet did the Spacers really know it or did they simply put it out of their mind? }}
  • (biology, medicine) Originating where found; found where it originates.
  • * 1983 , Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey , volume 80, page 538:
  • When, in 1858, Joseph Lister amputated the right leg of a six-year-old girl suffering from gangrene, he noted that the autochthonous blood clot extended down the anterior tibial artery as far as the commencement of the gangrene.
  • (geology) Buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation.
  • * 1992 , Anna K. Behrensmeyer, et al., Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time , page 83:
  • Death and burial may be simultaneous, resulting in a preserved snapshot of an autochthonous assemblage that may be compared directly with present day ecosystems.

    Synonyms

    * (native to the place where found) aboriginal, autochthonic, indigenous, native

    Antonyms

    * (sense) allochthonous

    Derived terms

    * autochthonously * parautochthonous

    primary

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • The first in a group or series.
  • Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
  • * Bishop Pearson
  • the church of Christ, in its primary institution
  • * John Locke
  • These I call original, or primary , qualities of body.
  • Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
  • Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
  • (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
  • (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
  • (label) idiopathic
  • Derived terms

    * primarily * primary care * primary color, primary colour * primary producer * primary research * primary school * primary source

    See also

    * first * primus inter pares * secondary (2) * tertiary (3) * quaternary (4)

    Noun

    (primaries)
  • A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
  • The first year of grade school.
  • A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
  • The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
  • A primary school.
  • * 2001 , David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
  • Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
  • (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
  • A primary colour.
  • * 2003 , Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
  • By adding and subtracting the three primaries , cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
  • (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
  • Verb

  • (US) To take part in a primary election.
  • (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election