primitive : Idioms & Phrases

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primitive art

  • noun a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
    naive art; outsider art; vernacular art; self-taught art.
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Primitive axes of coördinate

  • (Geom.), that system of axes to which the points of a magnitude are first referred, with reference to a second set or system, to which they are afterward referred.
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Primitive chord

  • (Mus.), that chord, the lowest note of which is of the same literal denomination as the fundamental base of the harmony; opposed to derivative. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
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Primitive circle

  • (Spherical Projection), the circle cut from the sphere to be projected, by the primitive plane.
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Primitive colors

  • (Paint.), primary colors. See under Color.
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Primitive Fathers

  • (Eccl.), the acknowledged Christian writers who flourished before the Council of Nice, A. D. 325. Shipley.
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Primitive groove

  • (Anat.), a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of it.
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primitive person

  • noun a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
    primitive.
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Primitive plane

  • (Spherical Projection), the plane upon which the projections are made, generally coinciding with some principal circle of the sphere, as the equator or a meridian.
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Primitive rocks

  • (Geol.), primary rocks. See under Primary.
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Primitive sheath

  • . (Anat.) See Neurilemma.
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Primitive streak ∨ trace

  • (Anat.), an opaque and thickened band where the mesoblast first appears in the vertebrate blastoderm.
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