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/pɹˈaɪmɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈpɹaɪmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹaɪmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- the act of making something ready
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
How To Use priming In A Sentence
- Hines MT, Palmer GH, Knowles DP, Alperin DC, et al. (2003) Analysis of anamnestic immune responses in adult horses and priming in neonates induced by a DNA vaccine expressing the PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- What I have seen is about as fine in grain as what we call priming powder in the navy. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
- He employed boys because they were cheap and he had a lot of rough work, and they could get under floors and "bogies" with their pots and brushes, and do all the "priming" and paint the trucks. Over the Sliprails
- He was still priming the timing device and the slightest error could detonate the mine prematurely. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
- According to what we understand about the effects of priming, the opposite would be predicted - lower thresholds derived from the descending than the ascending order.
- All our .30 Carbine ammunition of the time had non-corrosive priming.
- The low-probability intervening event did eliminate negative priming, but did so by slowing performance in the baseline condition relative to all other conditions.
- No worse by day than the lusty priming of a neglected hand pump, at night the donkey's bray assumes the apocalyptic aural agony of hell's rusted gates being effortfully forced ajar.
- The prior art on continuity vs. flighting comes from John Philip Jones and Erwin Ephron, who used IRI panel data to show that Recency is what really counts – the Ebbinghaus memory curve's effect on ROI – reaching consumers just before shopping trips (so they actually remember you at the moment of truth – psychologic term of art: Priming), driving up ROI. In Terms Of ROI: What Do We Know About Continuity Vs. Flighting? - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBloggers
- The priming effect in temporal order perception is a phenomenon in which a primed stimulus was judged as appearing before an unprimed stimulus.