# \_primary\_term

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/primary-term/109734>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 30, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/primary-term/109734 "2017-11-30T10:42:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sshling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sshling/32/24052_2.png) [@sshling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sshling)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/primary-term/109734/1 "2017-11-30T10:42:20Z")

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What does it mean?

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/primary-term/109734/2 "2017-11-30T12:18:28Z")

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This is a field thats used internally by Elasticsearch. You can read about it and the sequence ids work in general in this blog post: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-sequence-ids-6-0](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-sequence-ids-6-0)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/primary-term/109734/3 "2017-12-28T12:18:32Z")

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