PRIMAL | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of primal in English primaladjective [ before noun ] uk /ˈpraɪ.məl/ us /ˈpraɪ.məl/ Add to word list Add to word list relating to the time when human life on earth began: The universe evolved from a densely packed primal inferno. formal basic and relating to an early stage of development: a primal urge to connect with nature primal fears Prehistory

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Crude and basic (Definition of primal from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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primaladjective [ not gradable ] us /ˈprɑɪ·məl/ Add to word list Add to word list characteristic of the earliest time in the existence of a person or thing; basic: The appeal of music is primal. (Definition of primal from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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primal An empirical analysis of consumer retail purchase behavior for beef differentiated by primal and production attributes. From the Cambridge English Corpus How, then, can the agent be responsible for the primal sin ? From the Cambridge English Corpus Finally, there are efficient primal-dual interior-point methods for this class of problems, or at least for important subclasses. From the Cambridge English Corpus Then d becomes grad in the primal variational formulation and the remaining unknown is a plain function. From the Cambridge English Corpus He focused on the prototypes in which architecture most reveals itself: namely, primal types, primal components, and primal material. From the Cambridge English Corpus The primal horde remains a focal interest and modern man is once again subject to involuntary time-travel. From the Cambridge English Corpus If a soap bubble has any form of primal consciousness, that protoconsciousness would be of an elastic spherical form under stress, as a unitary gestalt. From the Cambridge English Corpus We mention first primal and dual versions, and then discuss primal-dual methods. From the Cambridge English Corpus The state of primal grace is an embodied architecture. From the Cambridge English Corpus The poet's images are primal and not technologised at all, evoking local colour through such words as baboon and monkey. From the Cambridge English Corpus They may be descendants of the primal pair leaving the cave. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this case the striking difference between the two formulations justifies the labels 'primal' and 'dual' (which stem from convex analysis). From the Cambridge English Corpus A similar rule applies to primal variables that are sub ject to bounds and to dual variables. From the Cambridge English Corpus A crucial consequence is the diminished emotional energy which in an authentic shamanic ritual is experienced with almost primal intensity by its audienceparticipants. From the Cambridge English Corpus Primal religions, together with pantheism, think of religious powers as in principle (to a sufficiently acute observer) fully disclosed in the world. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of primal These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of primal?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 最初的，原始的, 基本的，根本的, 原始的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 最初的，原始的, 基本的，根本的, 原始的… See more in Spanish primordial, primario… See more in Portuguese primevo, primordial… See more in Polish in Turkish pierwotny… See more temel, ilk insanlar ait, insanlığın doğuşuna ait… See more Need a translator?

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