primitive

Etymology

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1. 1

   An original or primary word

   An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.

2. 2

   A member of a primitive society.

3. 3

   Primitive or primeval nature

   Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.

   • It may be that, living among primitive surroundings, the dormant primitive deep within the white man is drawn towards the absolute primitive in the aboriginal.
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   1. 4

      Natural or premodern environment or conditions

      Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.

      • Out there in the primitive, white-man Rust had made his tools out of the primitive, as these stone-age people were making excellent string from the primitive.
   2. 5

      A simple-minded person.

   3. 6

      A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex…

      A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.

   4. 7

      Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming…

      Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.

      • A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory
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      A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.

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      A function whose derivative is a given function

      A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.

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      Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times

      Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.

      • primitive innocence; the primitive church
      • it is from such primitive beings that the highest organisms now extant are the marvellously developed descendants
      • "The cranium is clearly plesiomorphic in overall form, presenting primitive traits shared by earlier hominins," the authors wrote.
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      Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time

      Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

      • a primitive style of dress
      • The intermediate stations were of the most primitive type.
   9. 12

      Crude, obsolete.

      • primitive ideas
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       Original

       Original; primary; radical; not derived.

       • a primitive verb
       • The primitive root in "children" is "child."
       • Division of words. Words are primitive or radical, and derivative or compound. Of primitive words. Primitive or radical words are such as cannot be divided, or separated into parts which are significant; as man, hope, bless.
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       Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.

   12. 15

       Not derived from another of the same type

   13. 16

       most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of

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