SECONDARY
\sˈɛkəndəɹi], \sˈɛkəndəɹi], \s_ˈɛ_k_ə_n_d_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of SECONDARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
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coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
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belonging to a lower class or rank
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not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events"
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of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
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depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"
By Princeton University
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inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
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coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
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belonging to a lower class or rank
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not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events"
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of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
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depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
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Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
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Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
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Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
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One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
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A secondary circle.
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A secondary quill.
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Subsequent in origin; - said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
By Oddity Software
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Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
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Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
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Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
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Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
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One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
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A secondary circle.
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A secondary quill.
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Subsequent in origin; - said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
By Noah Webster.
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Next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; subordinate; inferior; derived from something else as its source; as, a secondary authority; in electrical usage, of, pertaining to, or denoting, an induced current or its circuit.
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In zoology, any of the quill feathers that grow on the second joint of a bird's wing: secondary school, a high school, or any school of high school grade.
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Secondarily.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Secondarily.
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Subordinate; second rate.
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An assistant; deputy.
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Anything secondary.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Following or coming after the first: second in position: inferior: subordinate: deputed.
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A subordinate: a delegate or deputy.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Second in importance or in position ; arising, not from the growing point, but from other tissue.
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A forearm quill-feather of a bird's wing ; an insect hind-wing.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Something that acts subordinately to another; as the secondary symptoms of a disease; that is, those which supervene on the primary. A secondary amputation is one performed after the constitutional effects of an injury have mainly passed away. See Fever, secondary; and Haemorrhagia, for Secondary Hemorrhage.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Second or subordinate in order of time, development, interdependence, importance, etc.; of an electrical current, induced.
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Of organic compounds in chemistry, having a substituted radicle in a hydrocarbon attached to a carbon atom which itself is connected with two other carbon atoms. The term is also applied to amins, amids, phosphins, stibines, and arsins in which two of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia, phosphoreted hydrogen, etc., are replaced by radicles.
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Of a disease (e. g., syphilis), its manifestation after an interval following the primary lesions. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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