Meaning of principal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Primary; most important; first level in importance.
2. main, most important
3. A person who is in charge of a school or other educational institution.
4. Of or relating to a prince; princely.
   Latinism, obsolete
5. essential
6. The main performer in a theatrical production:lead, protagonist, star.
7. Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
8. chief, boss
9. most important. Shipbuilding was one of Britain's principal industries. hoof رَئيسي главен principal hlavní hauptsächlich vigtig; hoved- κυριότεροςprincipal tähtsaim اصلی pääasiallinen principalעיקרי मुख्य, प्रधान, प्रमुख, मूल fő terpenting megin- principale 主要な 주요한 pagrindinis, svarbiausias galvenais; svarīgākais utama voornaamstehoved-, viktigstgłówny اصلى principal principal главный hlavný glaven glavni huvudsaklig, viktigast สำคัญมากกว่าอย่างอื่น temel 最重要的 головний, основний اول، اعلي ch...
10. mostly; chiefly. I am principally concerned with teaching English. hoofsaaklik أولا وَقَبْل كُل شَيء главно principalmente hlavně hauptsächlich hovedsagligt; principielt κυρίωςprincipalmente peamiselt عمدتاً pääasiallisesti principalementבעיקר मुख्य रूप से főként terutama aðallega principalmente 주로 daugiausia, iš esmės galvenokārt terutamanya voornamelijk hovedsakelig, først og fremstgłównie په عمده توګه principalmente în primul rând главным образом hlavne predvsem uglavnom huvudsakligen, väs...
11. principal, más importante.
12. First or highest in rank or importance. See Synonyms at chief.
13. Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
14. One who holds a position of presiding rank, especially the head of an elementary school, middle school, or high school.
15. An amount of capital originally borrowed or invested, as opposed to the interest paid or accruing on it.
16. Law a. The person on behalf of whom an agent acts.
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Examples

“Smith is the principal architect of this design.”

“The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.”

“In a word, the Epiſodes of Homer are complete Epiſodes; they are proper to the ſubject, because they are drawn from the ground of the fable; they are ſo joined to the principal action, that one is the neceſſary conſequence of the other, either truly or probably: and laſtly, they are imperfect members which do not make a complete and finiſhed body; for an Epiſode that makes a complete action, cannot be part of a principal action; as is eſſential to all Epiſodes.”

“For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.”

“The principal treasure of ths department, however, is the Stele of Hammurabi (1792—1750 B.C.), king of the first Babylonian kingdom, a basalt cylinder 2.25m/7ft 5in. inscribed with Hammurabi's laws written in Akkadian in cuneiform script.”

“In theory, there are the same number of principal components as there are variables, but in practice, usually only a few of the principal components need to be identified to account for most of the data variance.”

“I understand that feeling. Through 20 years in the industry, I've stayed on the staff engineer's path, and I'm now a senior principal engineer, parallel to a senior director on my company's career ladder.”

“But walkt at will, and wandred to and fro, / In the pride of his freedome principall.”

“Two is the principal square root of 4. Both −2 and +2 are square roots of 4.”

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