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Definition von to primitive im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar; Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church; A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed; An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative; A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures; A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative; pertaining to the beginning or early times; pristine; If you describe something as primitive, you mean that it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned. It's using some rather primitive technology. sophisticated. an artist who paints simple pictures like those of a child; {a} ancient, original, prior; {a} ancient, original, native, formal; primeval; An abstract, implementation independent, interaction between a layer service user and a layer service provider; belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"; Describes a character state that is present in the common ancestor of a clade A primitive character state is inferred to be the original condition of that character within the clade under consideration For example, "presence of hair" is a primitive character state for all mammals, whereas the "hairlessness" of whales is a derived state for one subclade within the Mammalia; An element in a Radiance scene description, which consists of a modifier, type, identifier, and zero or more parameters (See the Radiance reference manual on the CD-ROM for syntax and semantics ); A property that is stored in a CLOS object slot; not derived; original, primary Of or relating to the earliest age or period (primeval) Little evolved and closely approximating an early ancestral type Elemental, natural of or relating to a relatively simple people or culture; An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative; a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived a person who belongs to early stage of civilization used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"; One of a group of widgets that usually do not have children; This refers to something at the lowest level of detail; elemental For example to a program, addition is a primitive operation of the hardware Although from the point of view of the hardware it may be complex; Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution; little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"; in studies of the solar system, an object or rock that has remained chemically unchanged since it formed (solidified) about 4 6 billion years ago The object holds a record of the very early conditions from which the rest of the solar system (Sun, planets, moons) formed; a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"; Primitive means belonging to a very early period in the development of an animal or plant. primitive whales It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger; (n or adj ) A term used primarily to describe the fundamental geometric forms used for building 3-D CAD models Primitives are typically defined parametrically or with single-sweep operations Primitives are used as tool solids in Boolean operations; As opposed to civilized The notion of "culture" has freed us somewhat of the rigidity of the opposition between the primitive and the civilized Conventionally, hunter-gatherer cultures are primitive; agriculture would mark the beginning of civilization; a person who belongs to early stage of civilization; Primitive means belonging to a society in which people live in a very simple way, usually without industries or a writing system. studies of primitive societies; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking; a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived; undeveloped or in early stages of development, undifferentiated; used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"; An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; opposed to derivative; An element of the services provided by one entity to another; The smallest component of VPF, of which all features are composed There are three geometric primitives (nodes, edges, faces) and one cartographic primitive (text); A data type that is part of the JScript language and manipulated by value The data types in JScript considered to be primitive are number, Boolean, string, and function Objects and arrays are not primitive data types; (1) (n ) Basic computer instruction at the machine level (2) (n ) In computer graphics, a fundamental shape or object used primarily in the construction of more complex objects Graphics primitives include point, line segment, polyline, circle, ellipse, triangle, square, and rectangle; A low level software component upon which other more complex components are built For example, letters could be viewed as the primitives upon which words and sentences are built; Representation of an element that is frequently used in a LEGO part Example - STUD DAT These files are used in place of creating the element each time it is used in a parts file They reside in the P subdirectory of the LDRAW folder; Of or pertaining to a former time; old- fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress; A category of an ontology that cannot be defined in terms of other categories in the same ontology An example of a primitive is the concept type Point in Euclid's geometry The meaning of a primitive is not determined by a closed-form definition, but by axioms that specify how it is related to other primitives A category that is primitive in one ontology might not be primitive in a refinement of that ontology; {s} old, ancient; primeval, from prehistoric times; simple, crude; original, initial; uncivilized, uncultured; We say that an object B is more primitive than another object A when the implementation of A involves instances of B The implementation techniques that we use require the relation "more primitive than" to be a partial ordering When referring to a primitive object we mean that no other objects are more primitive Primitive Keykos objects are implemented in the kernel; the quality of not being subdivided; atomic; Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress; Primitivity has two meanings, a primary meaning and a derived meaning used only in non-prime Galois fields: A primitive element in a group is an element whose powers exhaust the entire group Thus 3 is primitive in the group of units mod 7 as 1=36, 2=32, 3=31, 4=34, 5=35, and 6=33, but 2 is not primitive in this group as there is no exponent e such that 3=2e (mod 7) More commonly we say that 3 is primitive mod 7 but 2 is not We say that the polynomial p(x) is primitive (mod some finite base field F) if the element x is primitive (in the previous sense) in the group of units of the polynomials mod p(x) Thus we say that the polynomial x2+x+1 is primitive mod 2 as x=x1, x+1=x2, and 1=x3 However, the same polynomial is not primitive mod 5 as 1=x3(mod p); {i} early man, one of the first humans; painter from period before the Renaissance; A built-in function; one that is supplied with AutoLISP, such as setq, defun, or getpoint; An instance of a component master and the lowest logic level on a circuit Many primitive instances can share the same component master (TI*); The simplest type of solid, including the slab, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus, and wedge; a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived" a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived a person who belongs to early stage of civilization used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies" of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking; A term used for the early sub-species of Equus Caballus: the Asian Wild Horse, the Tarpan, the Forest Horse and the Tundra Horse