PRIME QUANTITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prime quantity mean? 

• PRIME QUANTITY (noun)
  The noun PRIME QUANTITY has 1 sense:

1. a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself

  Familiarity information: PRIME QUANTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIME QUANTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

prime; prime quantity

Hypernyms ("prime quantity" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prime quantity"):

prime number (an integer that has no integral factors but itself and 1)