A "short primer" refers to a brief and basic introduction or guide to a specific topic or subject. It provides a quick overview or summary to help beginners or those unfamiliar with the topic to gain some basic knowledge and understanding of it.
Sentences with «short primer»
Related sites Abstract of paper, with link to full text Chandra X-ray Observatory, with animations of eruption Short primer on supermassive black holes (sciencemag.org)
Using PCR with a different set of short primers from Clark's, her findings seem to corroborate Clark's and Oliver's works: She has identified B. andersonii, B. americana and classic B. burgdorferi in lone star ticks and their close relatives Amblyomma cajennense, found from the U.S. / Mexican border down through South America. (discovermagazine.com)
(As always, it's actually much more complicated that, and Stross has a readable short primer on that too.) (gyrovague.com)