Meaning & use
Primitives
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Basic, fundamental elements or components from which more complex things are built, or early, unsophisticated works of art.
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In computer graphics, triangles and lines are common primitives used to build 3D models.
The museum's collection includes several American folk primitives from the 1800s.
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In computer science, 'primitives' refers to the simplest building-block data types or shapes a system can directly manipulate.
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