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Primary vs Nascent - What's the difference?

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In chemistry terms the difference between primary and nascent

is that primary is illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement while nascent is of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.

As adjectives the difference between primary and nascent

is that primary is the first in a group or series while nascent is emerging; just coming into existence.

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 to take part in a primary election.

primary

English

(wikipedia 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

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    nascent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Emerging; just coming into existence.
    • India has a nascent space industry.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= c1624 , year_published= 1631 , author= , by= , title= Vigilius Dormitans, Romes seer overseene: Or a treatise of the fift generall Councell held at Constantinople, anno 553 under Justininan the Emperour, in the time of pope Vigilius , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=nsREAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA186 , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Robert Mylebourne , location= , editor= , volume= , page= 186 , passage= In the first the Pope was but Antichrist nascent ; In the second Antichrist crescent; In the third Antichrist regnant; }}
  • (mathematics, obsolete) Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1706 , year_published= 1919 , author= Florian Cajori, PhD. , by= , title= A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse , url= , original= Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= The Open Court Publishing Company , location= Chicago and London , editor= , volume= , page= 43 , passage= These Fluxions are in the first Ratio of their Nascent Augments. }}
  • Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1742 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Reward and Punishment in the Jewish Dispensation. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=cYBOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA222 , original= , chapter= , section = , issue = 1 , isbn= , edition= second , publisher= Fletcher Gyles , location= London , editor= , volume= 2 , page= 222 , passage= For, as we have shewn, the original Use of it was to support nascent HeroWorship. }}
  • (chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1800 , year_published= 1839 , author= , by= , title= The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and its Respiration. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=0psEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA250 , original= , chapter= Additional Observations and Experiments on the Respiration of Nitrous Oxide , section = Of the Changes Effected in Nitrous Oxide, and Other Gases, by the Respiration of Animals , issue = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Smith, Elder and Company , location= London , editor= John Davy , volume= 3 , page= 250 , passage= There are no reasons for supposing that any of the residual atmospheric oxygen is immediately combined with fixed or nascent hydrogen, or hydrocarbonate, in the venous blood at 98°, by slow combustion, and consequently none for supposing that water is immediately formed in respiration. }}

    Synonyms

    * (emerging) emergent, emerging, immature, inchoate, incipient, infant

    Antonyms

    * dying * moribund

    Derived terms

    * nascent hydrogen * nascent proteins

    Related terms

    * antenatal * innate * natal * native * nativism * natural * naturel * naturism * naturalism * prenatal

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