ADSR

ADSR may refer to:

ADSR envelope (Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release), a term referring to the amplitude envelope used in some synthesizers

Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor, a nuclear reactor using a particle accelerator to generate a fission reaction in a sub-critical assembly of fissionable material

A.D.S.R. Musicwerks, a Seattle, Washington store and US record label that releases Synth Pop and Electro Industrial music

Attack Decay Sustain Release, the debut album from Simian Mobile Disco, released on June 18, 2007

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Primary

Primary may refer to:

Arts and culture

Primary (film), 1960 documentary

Primary (band), from Australia

Primary (musician), a South Korean musician

"Primary" (song), by The Cure

Primary Music, Israeli record label

"Primary", a song by Spoon from the album Telephono

Primaries or primary beams, in E. E. Smith's science-fiction series Lensman

Computing

Primary data storage, a computer technology used to retain digital data

Primary server, main server on the server farm

PRIMARY, an X Window selection

Mathematics

Prime power, positive integer power of a prime number

Primary decomposition, a decomposition into primary ideals

p-group, a group of prime power order

Primary ideals, a concept in commutative algebra

Politics

Primary election, an election by which a political party selects and nominates a candidate

Primary vote, the first vote total in the Electoral system of Australia

Science and mechanics

Primary (astronomy), the larger of two co-orbiting bodies

Primary mirror, principal light-gathering surface of a reflecting telescope

Primary election

A primary election is an election that narrows the field of candidates before an election for office. Primary elections are one means by which a political party or a political alliance nominates candidates for an upcoming general election or by-election.

Primaries are common in the United States, where their origins are traced to the progressive movement to take the power of candidate nomination from party leaders to the people.

Other methods of selecting candidates include caucuses, conventions, and nomination meetings. Historically, Canadian political parties chose their candidates through nominating conventions held by constituency riding associations. Canadian party leaders are elected at leadership conventions, although some parties have abandoned this practice in favor of one member, one vote systems.

Types

General

Where primary elections are organized by parties, not the administration, two types of primaries can generally be distinguished:

Closed primary. (synonyms: internal primaries, party primaries) In the case of closed primaries, internal primaries, or party primaries, only party members can vote.

Primary (film)

Primary is a 1960 Direct Cinema documentary film about the 1960 Wisconsin Primary election between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey for the United States Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.

Produced by Robert Drew, shot by Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles, and edited by D. A. Pennebaker, the film was a breakthrough in documentary film style. Most importantly, through the use of mobile cameras and lighter sound equipment, the filmmakers were able to follow the candidates as they wound their way through cheering crowds, cram with them into crowded hotel rooms, and to hover around their faces as they awaited polling results. This resulted in a greater intimacy than was possible with the older, more classical techniques of documentary filmmaking; and it established what has since become the standard style of video reporting.

In 1990, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film's importance in the evolution of documentary filmmaking was explored in the film Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment.