Usually means: Activating specific associations before task.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. priming: Merriam-Webster
  2. priming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. priming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. priming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. priming: Vocabulary.com
  6. Priming, priming: Wordnik
  7. priming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. priming: Wiktionary
  9. priming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. priming: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. priming: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. priming: Dictionary.com
  13. priming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Priming (agriculture), Priming (immunology), Priming (media), Priming (microbiology), Priming (psychology), Priming (steam locomotive), Priming (structural), Priming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Priming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. priming: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. priming: Rhymezone
  18. Priming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. priming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. priming: FreeDictionary.org
  21. priming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. priming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Priming: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. priming: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  3. priming: Legal dictionary
  4. priming: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. priming: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. priming: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. priming: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Priming: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Priming: Brew Monkey Glossary
  4. PRIMING: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (priming)

noun:  A substance used as a primer.
noun:  (botany) A form of seed planting preparation in which the seeds are presoaked in a nanoparticle solution.
noun:  (engineering) A harmful condition in which water is carried over from the boiler of a steam locomotive.
noun:  (firearms) The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
noun:  (immunology) The first contact that an antigen-specific T helper cell precursors have with an antigen.
noun:  (media) A cognitive process in which media information increases temporarily the accessibility of knowledge units in the memory of an individual.
noun:  (microbiology) The effect that a nutrient has on the rate of organic matter decomposition
noun:  (medicine, nursing) The process of flushing the tubing with IV fluid to remove air before connecting it to a patient.
noun:  (psychology) The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
noun:  (psycholinguistics) A form of positive priming that induces a tendency to repeat or more easily process a sentence that is similar in structure to one previously presented.

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