Usually means: Number divisible only by one, itself.
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  1. prime number: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prime number: Merriam-Webster
  3. prime number: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prime number: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prime number: Vocabulary.com
  6. prime number: Wordnik
  7. prime number: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prime-number, prime number: Wiktionary
  9. prime number: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. prime number: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. prime number: Dictionary.com
  12. Prime number: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. prime number: Rhymezone
  14. prime number: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. prime number: FreeDictionary.org
  16. prime number: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. prime number: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prime number: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prime Number: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  3. prime number: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. prime number: Prime

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prime Number: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prime_numbers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prime number)

noun:  (number theory) Any natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.
noun:  (obsolete, number theory) Any natural number (including 1) that is divisible only by itself and 1.

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