TERTIARY
\tˈɜːʃjəɹɪ], \tˈɜːʃjəɹɪ], \t_ˈɜː_ʃ_j_ə_ɹ_ɪ]\
Definitions of TERTIARY
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
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Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
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A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
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The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
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One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; - said of quills.
By Oddity Software
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Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
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Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
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A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
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One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; - said of quills.
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The era, period, or formation.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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Of the third degree, order, or formation: pertaining to the series of sedimentary rocks or strata lying above the chalk and other secondary strata, and abounding in organic remains.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Of the third formation.
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An associate of a monkish fraternity under vew to observe the rules of the order but not leading a monastic life. Tertiary formation, a series of strata more recent than the chalk, and which has been divided into eocene, miocene and pliocene, which see.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Third; pert. to the third.
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The third or upper great division of the stratified systems, as distinguished from secondary and primary.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Of organic compounds, having a radicle substituted in a hydrocarbon attached to a carbon atom which itself is connected with three other carbon atoms; of amins and amids, phosphins, stibines, and arsins, having all three hydrogen atoms of ammonia, phosphoreted hydrogen, etc., replaced by radicles.
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Of a disease, in the third stage (said especially of syphilis in the gummatous stage). [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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