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overprime

overprime verb: to prime with too much fuel.

Verb

overprime (third-person singular simple present overprimes, present participle overpriming, simple past and past participle overprimed)

  1. (transitive) To prime with too much fuel.
    • Be careful not to overprime the stove.

Noun

overprime (plural overprimes)

  1. A prime number larger than some given natural number.
    • Let q be a minimal overprime of S.

Forms of overprime

Verb
third-person singular presentoverprimes
present participleoverpriming
past participleoverprimed
pastoverprimed
Noun
pluraloverprimes

Origin of overprime

From over- + prime.

Questions about overprime

What does overprime mean?
Overprime means to prime with too much fuel.
What part of speech is overprime?
Overprime can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overprime?
The past tense of overprime is overprimed.

Words near overprime in the dictionary

  1. overpriced
  2. overpricedness
  3. overprices
  4. overpricing
  5. overpricings
  6. overprime
  7. overprimed
  8. overprimes
  9. overpriming
  10. overprint
  11. overprinted

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