prime

In a sentence

Six example sentences with prime, each labelled with its topic.

• Encryption keys start from two enormous prime numbers, chosen because no one can factor their product in any reasonable time.

  Technology

• Cicadas emerge on prime cycles of thirteen or seventeen years, which keeps their broods from lining up with shorter-lived predators.

  Science

• The puzzle door opens only for prime totals, so nine and fifteen fail while eleven and thirteen slide the bolt back.

  Gaming

• Euclid proved more than two thousand years ago that no list of prime numbers can ever be complete.

  History

• The composer set his rhythms to prime lengths of five, seven, and eleven beats so no pattern lined up too soon.

  Music

• The seminar asked whether a prime number exists before anyone counts it, or only once a mind picks it out.

  Philosophy

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains prime. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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