# Prime (disambiguation)

A prime is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.
Prime or PRIME may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Prime (comics), a comic book character
* Dyson Aliens or The Primes, aliens in Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga

### Music

* Prime (music)
* Prime Boys, Canadian hip hop collective
* Prime (percussion), to lightly strike an instrument such as a gong in preparation for playing
* Prime form (music)
* Unison, an interval also called a prime
* Prime (album), an album by Christian McBride
* "Prime", a song by Marnie Stern from This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That, 2008

### Television channels

* Prime (Canadian TV channel), the former name of Canadian cable channel DTour
* Prime TV (Philippine TV channel)
* Prime TV (Dom Eliseu), a local television station in Pará, Brazil
* Prime (Moldovan TV channel)
* Prime (New Zealand TV channel)
* Prime TV (Sri Lanka), a defunct Sri Lankan television channel
* AFN Prime, part of the American Forces Network
* BBC Prime, a defunct television channel in Europe and the Middle East
* Prime Network, a defunct cable sports network in the United States
* Prime Televisie, the former name of Flemish pay television channel More Play
* Prime7, a television network in Australia owned by Prime Media

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Prime (film), a 2005 romantic comedy
* Prime lens, a lens which has a fixed focal length, in film and photography
* Prime Number (short story collection), a short story collection by Harry Harrison
* Prime time, a block of slots each evening in broadcast programming
* Prime version, the original version of an artwork existing in several versions
* Sonic Prime, a 2022 TV show in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

## Brands and enterprises

* Amazon Prime, a subscription service of Amazon.com
* Prime (drink), a brand of beverages
* Prime Books, an American publisher
* Prime Broadcasting Network, a radio broadcasting network in the Philippines
* Prime Media Group, a defunct Australian media corporation
* Prime Media Holdings, an investment holding company in the Philippines

## Finance

* Prime (finance)
* Prime rate, a rate of interest applied in banking

## Mathematics

* Prime (order theory)
* Prime 3-manifold, a 3-manifold that cannot be written as the connect sum of two nontrivial 3-manifolds
* Prime element, in algebra
* Prime form of a Riemann surface
* Prime ideal, a subset of a ring
* Prime knot, a knot that cannot be written as the knot sum of two non-trivial knots in knot theory
* Prime model, as simple a model as possible in model theory
* Prime polynomial

## People

* Prime (graffiti artist) (born 1971) or Jose Reza
* Prime (surname)

## Science and technology

* a psychological stimulus which causes priming
* PRIME (power-line communication), a power-line communication standard
* PRIME (labeling technique), probe incorporation mediated by enzymes, a molecular biology research tool
* Prime editing, a gene editing technique
* PRIME, a GPU offloading solution for the Linux kernel, used in the Direct Rendering Manager
* HP Prime, a graphing calculator model
* Prime Computer, a producer of minicomputers

## Sports

* Prime F.C., a Nigerian football club
* Prime parry, a parry form in fencing
* Prime (cycling), an intermediate sprint within a bicycle race

## Vehicles

* Edel Prime Bi, a South Korean paraglider design
* Prius Prime, an automobile
* USS Prime (AM-279), a minesweeper in naval service 1944–46
* USS Prime (AM-466), a minesweeper commissioned in 1954
* X-23 PRIME, an experimental re-entry vehicle

## Other uses

* Prime (liturgy), a canonical hour
* Prime (symbol), the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix
* Prime, a grading of meat in beef carcass classification
* Prime rib, or standing rib roast, a cut of beef from the primal rib, one of the primal cuts of beef
* Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools, a programme of the Singapore Ministry of Education
* Prime years, the ideal or perfect age