primary rainbow

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noun

the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.

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Origin of primary rainbow

First recorded in 1785–95

Words nearby primary rainbow

primary processes, primary producer, primary pulmonary lobule, primary qualities, primary quality, primary rainbow, primary reaction, primary root, primary school, primary sex characteristic, primary spermatocyte

How to use primary rainbow in a sentence

Scruff believes that sex is not the primary concern of users.
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He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.
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“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
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Even then, most of us doubted he would show up and actually sign the papers allowing him to enter the 1992 New Hampshire primary.
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It was Dec. 20, 1991, the deadline for the New Hampshire primary.
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Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
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What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
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That—and no existing institution and no current issue—is the primary concern of the present age.
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He also instituted primary schools in every commune, and started an cole Normale for the training of teachers.
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Directly after them came a lot of palace attendants in curious hats and long robes of all colours of the rainbow.
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