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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes honors television costume design and supervision by honoring achievements across five current categories, including Period, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, and Contemporary series.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series: top Television Academy honor for a dramatic primetime series, voted by National Active peer-group members; six-episode minimum, about 60-minute episodes, seven nominees since 2015; recent winners Succession and The Pitt.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, a Television Academy honor for lead comedy performances. Most wins: four each for O'Connor, Fox, Grammer, Parsons; 2026 winner Matthew Rhys for Widow's Bay.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: annual Television Academy honor for lead male dramatic TV acting; Noah Wyle won 2025 and 2026 for The Pitt; peer-judged in two voting rounds.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series honors an actress for a continuing performance in a comedy series, first awarded in 1954 to Eve Arden.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: annual Television Academy honor for leading drama performances. Recent winners include Anna Sawai (Shōgun, 2024) and Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus, 2026).
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Television Academy prize for a continuing supporting performance in a comedy series, first awarded 1959; recent winners include Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jeff Hiller, and Stephen Root.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, first given in 1959; honors male supporting performers in drama series. Recent winners include Billy Crudup (2024) and Tom Pelphrey (2026).
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Television Academy Category 67, honors a continuing supporting performance in a comedy series; first awarded in 1959, with Doris Roberts and Rhea Perlman holding four wins each and Kate O'Flynn winning for Widow's Bay in 2026.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Television Academy category 68, honors a continuing supporting performance in a drama series; first awarded 1959; recent winners Jennifer Coolidge, Elizabeth Debicki, Katherine LaNasa, Allison Janney.
Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards: annual American TV awards from the Television Academy (ATAS), first held 1949; peer-voted by National Active members; distinct from NATAS Daytime and International Emmys; moves to Prime Video in 2027.
Primeval (film)
Primeval is a 2007 American horror film directed by Michael Katleman, in which an American news crew travels to Burundi to capture a legendary man-eating crocodile named Gustave.
Primeval (TV series)
Primeval (2007-2011) is a British ITV science fiction drama by Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges about scientists containing creatures entering through time anomalies; 5 series, 23 episodes on ITV, spin-off Primeval: New World.
Primidone
Primidone (Mysoline, Desoxyphenobarbital) is a 1954 FDA-approved anticonvulsant similar to phenobarbital, metabolized to PEMA and phenobarbital, used for grand mal, psychomotor, and focal seizures and as first-line therapy for essential tremor.
Priming (psychology)
Priming, or cognitive priming, is a psychological phenomenon in which recent exposure to a stimulus speeds or slows responses to it or similar ones, usually without awareness.
Primisulfuron
Primisulfuron (primisulfuron-methyl, CAS 86209-51-0, Beacon, Rifle, CGA-136872) is a sulfonylurea ALS-inhibiting postemergence herbicide for corn; not EU-approved, banned in Türkiye.
Primitia
Primitia is an extinct genus of Paleozoic ostracod crustaceans (family Primitiidae, order Palaeocopida), named by Jones & Holl in 1865; known from about 485-361 Ma, marine to freshwater, suspension-feeding, not the Latin word primitia.
Primitive accumulation of capital
Primitive accumulation, also called original accumulation, is Karl Marx's term for the violent historical process, described in Capital (1867), that separates producers from their means of production.
Primitive data type
A primitive data type, or built-in type, is a data type predefined by a programming language rather than built by the programmer, typically integers, floats, booleans, and characters.
Primitive equations
The primitive equations are the set of atmospheric and oceanic motion equations, simplified by the hydrostatic approximation, used in most numerical weather prediction and climate models.
Primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the cervix uteri
Primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the cervix uteri, a peripheral PNET or Ewing sarcoma family tumor, is a rare cervical cancer of neural crest origin with small round cells, EWSR1-FLI1 fusions, CD99 positivity, and multimodal Ewing-style treatment.
Primitive permutation group
A primitive permutation group is a transitive permutation group preserving no nontrivial block system, equivalently one whose point stabilizers are maximal subgroups; these groups are the basic building blocks of all permutation groups.
Primitive recursive arithmetic
Primitive recursive arithmetic (PRA) is a quantifier-free formal theory of the natural numbers that serves in proof theory as the standard formalization of Hilbert's finitist reasoning about numbers.
Primitive recursive function
A primitive recursive function is a function on natural numbers built from basic functions by composition and primitive recursion, isolated by Kurt Gödel in 1931.
Primitive recursive functional
A primitive recursive functional is a functional of finite type definable by extending primitive recursion to higher types, introduced by Stephen Cole Kleene in 1959.
Primitive reflexes
Primitive reflexes: involuntary brainstem-mediated motor responses (Moro, grasp, rooting, Galant, tonic neck) present from about 25 weeks of gestation, normally inhibited by 4-6 months, and clinically significant when absent, persistent, or reemergent.
Primitive reticulocyte
Primitive reticulocyte: the reticulocyte formed when a primitive (yolk-sac, EryP) embryonic erythroblast enucleates in the embryonic bloodstream; large, embryonic-globin (Gower) producing first red cell, distinct from definitive reticulocytes.
Primitive root modulo n
A primitive root modulo n is an integer whose powers generate all numbers coprime to n; primitive roots exist only for n = 1, 2, 4, p^k, and 2p^k.
Primitive streak
The primitive streak is a transient structure on amniote embryos that forms in the third week of human development, marking gastrulation and the future posterior of the body.
Primitive Technology
Primitive Technology is an Australian wordless documentary web series created by John Plant, first posted on YouTube in 2015 and filmed in far north Queensland, Australia.