Primitive

Primitive may refer to:

• Anarcho-primitivism, an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization
• Primitive culture, one that lacks major signs of economic development or modernity
• Noble savage, a particular stock character in literature, i.e., a person uncorrupted by the influences of civilization
• Primitive communism, a pre-agrarian form of communism according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Primitive Church, another name for early Christianity
• Restorationism, also described as Christian primitivism, is the belief that Christianity should be restored along the lines of what is known about the apostolic early church.
• Primitive Baptist, a religious movement seeking to retain or restore early Christian practices
• Primitive Methodism
• Primitive (phylogenetics) characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution, cf. basal

Meteorology

• Primitive equations, a set of nonlinear differential equations that are used to approximate atmospheric flow

Mathematics

• Primitive element (field theory)
• Primitive element (finite field)
• Primitive cell (crystallography)
• Primitive notion, axiomatic systems
• Primitive polynomial (disambiguation), one of two concepts
• Primitive function or Antiderivative, F′ = f
• Primitive permutation group
• Primitive root of unity; see Root of unity#General definition.
• Primitive triangle, an integer triangle whose sides have no common prime factor

Computer science

• Language primitive, the simplest element provided by a programming language
• Machine code, instructions and data directly understandable by a CPU
• Primitive data type, a datatype provided by a programming language
• Geometric primitive, the simplest kinds of figures in computer graphics
• Cryptographic primitives, low-level cryptographic algorithms frequently used to build computer security systems

Art

• Naïve art, created by untrained artists
• Neo-primitivism, looks to early human history, folk art and non-Western or children's art for inspiration
• Primitivism, an early 20th-century art movement
• Primitive decorating, a style of decorating using primitive folk art style that is characteristic of a historic or early Americana time period

Literature

• Primitive, a novel by J. F. Gonzalez
• Primitive, a novel by Mark Nykanen

Music

Albums

• Primitive (album), by Soulfly
• Primitive (Neil Diamond album), by Neil Diamond

Songs

• Primitive (Róisín Murphy song), by Róisín Murphy and Ivan Corraliza, from Murphy's Overpowered album (2007)
• Primitive (Annie Lennox song), by Annie Lennox, from her Diva album (1992)
• Primitive (Killing Joke song), by Jaz Coleman and Killing Joke, from their eponymous début album (1980)
• Primitive (The Groupies song), by The Groupies and covered by The Cramps
• Primitive (Cyndi Lauper song), by Cyndi Lauper

Other uses

• The Primitives, a British indie rock band
• Primitive Radio Gods, an American alternative rock band

Sciences

• Primitive change, a general term encompassing a number of basic molecular alterations in the course of a chemical reaction.^[1]

See also

• Primeval (disambiguation)
• Primordial (disambiguation)

References

1. IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. doi:10.1351/goldbook. Last update: 2014-02-24; version: 2.3.3.