Priming
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Priming may refer to:
- Priming (psychology)Priming (psychology)Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences a response to a later stimulus. It can occur following perceptual, semantic, or conceptual stimulus repetition...
, a process in which the processing of a target stimulus is aided or altered by the presentation of a previously presented stimulus. - Priming (media)Priming (media)Priming is a theory in which the activation of one thought may trigger related thoughts. The priming theory states that media images stimulate related thoughts in the minds of audience members...
is a cognitive process, in which media information (Primes) increases temporarily the accessibility of knowledge units in the memory of an individual, which makes it more likely that these knowledge units are used in the reception, interpretation and judgement for the following external information. - Priming (agriculture)Priming (agriculture)Priming in botany and agriculture is a form of seed planting preparation in which the seeds are pre-soaked before planting.Priming is not an extremely widely-used method. In general, most kinds of seeds experimented with so far have shown an overall advantage over seeds that are not primed...
, a form of seed planting preparation, in which seeds are soaked before planting - Priming (science)Priming (science)Priming is a cleaning and preparation process that involves cleaning scientific equipment with the same liquid chemical it will come into contact with during the experiment. During scientific experiments that require high levels of accuracy and involve liquid chemicals, the equipment that will come...
, a process of cleaning and preparing equipment before experimentation - Priming (steam engine)Priming (steam engine)Priming is a condition in the boiler of a steam engine in which water is carried over into the steam delivery. It may be caused by impurities in the water, which foams up as it boils, or simply too high a water level...
, a harmful condition in which water is carried over from the boiler of a steam engine. - Priming (immunology)Priming (immunology)The first contact of a T or B cell with its specific antigen is called priming and causes differentiation into effector T or B cells ....
, a process occurring when a specific antigen is presented to naive lymphocytes causing them to differentiate either into armed effector cells or into memory cells. - The process by which a pumpPumpA pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids, gases or slurries.A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. Pumps fall into three major groups: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps...
is filled with fluid and made able to operate.