Sentence examples for main or primary from inspiring English sources

Computer memory is divided into main (or primary) memory and auxiliary (or secondary) memory.

The opening statement in an essay or news report is known as "the lede," and in the newspaper business it is supposed to give the reader the main or primary idea of the story that follows.

Homocysteine may be just one of the factors and not the main or primary one.

We asked respondents for one or two main or primary outcomes they expected to achieve for their largest marginal investment.

A biologic vector can be classified as a main or primary vector or as an auxiliary or secondary vector, according to the transmission area it is associated with.

Seasonal calving farms were able to designate one or more seasons as a calving season on the questionnaire but the questionnaire did not require specifying a main or primary calving season.

Fourth, we repeated analyses in the original cohort after again redefining hospitalized hypoglycemia (our main exposure) as primary or secondary diagnosis for admission, i.e., if hypoglycemia was an in-hospital complication it was no longer counted as an exposure, and those patients were considered not to have had hypoglycemia.

In addition, we classified main activities as either primary or secondary activities.

The interpretation of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) eigenvectors, known as multiple indices, may provide new insights into the main pathological models supporting primary or secondary patterns of WM disruption in AD, the retrogenesis, and Wallerian degeneration models, respectively.

Since a server node can assume the role of a primary or backup, three different contexts were defined: MAIN, PRIMARY, and BACKUP.

"It is a mistake to think that rising income gaps are the main or even a primary source of popular discontent in China," Mr Whyte says.