The monsoon of India. The world's most dramatic monsoon occurs in India. During the early summer months, increased solar heating begins to heat the Indian subcontinent, which would tend to set up a monsoon circulation cell between southern Asia and the Indian Ocean.eneral monsoon circulation. Monsoons, like most other winds, occur in response to the Sun heating the atmosphere. In their simplest form, monsoons are caused by differences in temperatures between the oceans and continents.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  prime, prime quantity(noun) a number that has no factor but itself and 1. 2  flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity. 3  prime(noun) the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. By Euclid's theorem, there are an infinite number of prime numbers. Subsets of the prime numbers may be generated with various formulas for primes.