primings

Noun

priming (plural primings)

1. A substance used as a primer.
   • The spot was bright and lively now; but in winter it became necessary to place sandbags against the door, and to stuff up the keyhole against the wind and rain, which had worn the paint so thin that the priming and knotting showed through.1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales
2. A form of seed planting preparation in which the seeds are presoaked in a nanoparticle solution.
3. A harmful condition in which water is carried over from the boiler of a steam locomotive.
   • There have been failures, of course, and especially delays due to bad steaming, and, more often, priming.1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216
4. The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
5. The first contact that an antigen-specific T helper cell precursors have with an antigen.
6. A cognitive process in which media information increases temporarily the accessibility of knowledge units in the memory of an individual.

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