first-order

British  

adjective

1. logic quantifying only over individuals and not over predicates or clauses: first-order predicate calculus studies the logical properties of such quantification

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Example Sentences

Honda's first-order issue is a severe vibration from the engine that has been leading to failures in the battery.

From BBC

"There are beneficial effects of this groundwater that we need to understand before we go extracting more of it. A first-order objective is to understand whether we could use this freshwater to wet dust hotspots and douse them in a meaningful way without perturbing the freshwater system too much," Johnson said.

From Science Daily

When a company gives AI tools to 500,000 employees, he adds, “these token problems become first-order.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Currently, first-order risks look largely similar to 2022 at the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when war policy exposure among Lloyd’s companies was minimal, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the case for a republic appears to be a first-order concern to fewer MPs now than it has been in the past.

From BBC