| Primates |
(pry-mate9ees)An order within class Mammalia. Large-brained arboreal mammals with stereoscopic color vision and grasping hands (and sometimes feet). Includes prosimians, monkeys, apes, and hominids.
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| Primates |
"Large-brained, mostly tree-dwelling mammals with three-dimensional color vision and grasping hands. Humans are primates."
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| primipara |
A woman having her first baby.
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| principal plane |
(Also called sun's meridian or sun's vertical.) In clear-sky optics, the vertical plane defined by sun, zenith, and observer. The clear daytime sky's radiance, polarization, and chromaticity patterns are largely symmetric about the principal plane.
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| principal point |
The point on the earth where a satellite sensor is focused at any time during its orbit. If the sensor vertical axis is perpendicular to the earth's surface, the principal point coincides with the subpoint. 2. A term used in remote sensing; the point where the optical axis intersects the principal plane.
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