primary mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandmechanism
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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Theprimarymechanismused in partial evaluation is the specialisation of function calls which have some or all of their arguments known (or partially known).
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This implies that theprimarymechanismof iron oxidation in this microbial mat is oxygen production by cyanobacteria.
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Although household production or reciprocity was theprimarymechanismof economic integration, there was also some market exchange.
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Object-oriented programming techniques remain theprimarymechanismfor building abstractions in these languages; generics fill a small and specific need.
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The fitness measure is theprimarymechanismfor communicating the high-level statement of the problem's requirements to the genetic programming system.
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But if this is theprimarymechanismfor the development of social understanding of mental life, it fails to satisfy.
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In both cases theprimarymechanismof destabilization is essentially inviscid.
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Theprimarymechanismby which altruism may lower social welfare is the introduction of coordination problems.
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Theprimarymechanismfor interpreting ambiguous sentences in this language involves features of discourse.
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Polymer scavenging, chain assembly by the recruitment of pre-formed fragments, is proposed as theprimarymechanismof reiterative chain assembly.
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We conclude that spindle abnormalities and centrosome replication anomalies may be theprimarymechanism leading to chaotic chromosomal segregation and the nuclear abnormalities observed in early human development.
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Above, we have discussed copying as theprimarymechanismof innovation.
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The pre-sentence report would be theprimarymechanismfor that information to be reported to the court.
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The state scheme will of course remain theprimarymechanismfor basic provision in old age.
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The exception by paragraph 1 of cultivated land is not theprimarymechanismby which improved or semi-improved farmland is itself excluded from statutory right.
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It is also theprimarymechanismthrough which emergency information is carried to the public—for example, in times of war or national disasters.
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However, the continuous use of high interest rates as theprimarymechanismof controlling inflation is a mixed blessing.
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There is every reason to believe that they could and should become theprimarymechanismfor agricultural support, rather than continue to occupy their present marginal position.
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This is thought to be theprimarymechanismby which particles gain non thermal energies in astrophysical shock waves.
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