Phrase Hound found 31 phrases and 13 compound words that contain primes. The most common are listed below. Open primes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 31
- associated primesplural of associated prime: An ideal of R which is the annihilator of some prime submodule of M.
- cousin primesplural of cousin prime: Either of a pair of prime numbers that differ by four
- Gaussian primesplural of Gaussian prime: A Gaussian integer a + bi such that either one of a, b is zero and the absolute value of the other is a prime number of the form 4n + 3 (with n a nonnegative integer); or both are nonzero and a² + b² is a prime …
- illegal primesplural of illegal prime: A prime number that encodes information that is illegal to possess or distribute.
- sexy primesplural of sexy prime: Either of a pair of prime numbers that differ by six.
- twin primesplural of twin prime: Either of a pair of prime numbers that differ by two.
- Eisenstein primesplural of Eisenstein prime: Any Eisenstein integer that is prime.
- Fermat primesplural of Fermat prime: A Fermat number that is prime.
- Mersenne primesplural of Mersenne prime: A prime number which is one less than a power of two (i.e., is expressible in the form 2ⁿ-1; for example, 31=2⁵-1).
- Proth primesplural of Proth prime: A Proth number that is prime.
- almost primesplural of almost prime: A natural number for which there exists an absolute constant K such that the number has at most K prime factors.
- Carol primesplural of Carol prime: A Carol number that is also a prime number.
- co-primesplural of co-prime: Having no positive integer factors in common, aside from 1.
- cuban primesplural of cuban prime: A prime number that is a solution to one of two specific equations involving third powers of x and y. The two equations are p=(x³-y³)/(x-y),x=y+1,y>0 and p=(x³-y³)/(x-y),x=y+2,y>0.
- Cullen primesplural of Cullen prime: A Cullen number that is prime.
- irregular primesplural of irregular prime: Any odd prime number that is not a regular prime.
- minimal primesplural of minimal prime: A prime number whose digital representation contains no smaller subsequence that is also prime.
- primes upthird-person singular simple present indicative of prime up: To prep up; to prepare or coach.
- pump-primesthird-person singular simple present indicative of pump-prime: Synonym of prime the pump (figurative senses)
- regular primesplural of regular prime: A prime number belonging to one of the two groups that prime numbers are divided into. The other group is the irregular primes.
- safe primesplural of safe prime: A prime number of the form 2p+1, where p is also a prime (the latter is called a Sophie Germain prime).
- super-primesplural of super-prime: Any of the subsequence of prime numbers that occupy prime-numbered positions within the sequence of prime numbers.
- titanic primesplural of titanic prime: A prime number with at least 1000 decimal digits.
- snowball primesplural of snowball prime: A prime number which remains a prime at every stage as it is written and truncated from the left.
- factorial primesplural of factorial prime: A prime number that is one more or one less than a factorial. For example, 7 is a factorial prime, since 3! + 1 = 7.
Compound words 13
- antiprimesplural of antiprime: A positive integer that has more divisors than any smaller positive integer.
- backprimesplural of backprime: The ⟨‵⟩ or ⟨`⟩ symbol; a reversed prime.
- interprimesplural of interprime: The mean of two consecutive odd primes
- megaprimesplural of megaprime: A prime number with at least one million decimal digits.
- misprimesthird-person singular simple present indicative of misprime: To prime incorrectly.
- nonprimesplural of nonprime: Not prime; composite
- overprimesthird-person singular simple present indicative of overprime: To prime with too much fuel.
- pseudoprimesplural of pseudoprime: An integer that possesses at least one characteristic of a prime number without actually being prime. The characteristic is typically chosen to make such "false primes" very rare.
- semiprimesplural of semiprime: A natural number that is the product of two (not necessarily distinct) prime numbers.
- subprimesplural of subprime: Less than prime; inferior.