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primary rainbow primary rainbow[′prī‚mer·ē ′rān‚bō] (optics) The most common of the principal rainbow phenomena, which appears as an arc of angular radius of about 42° about the observer's antisolar point; it is the inner of two rainbows, whose light undergoes only one internal reflection, and which is narrower and brighter than the outer, or secondary, rainbow. |