English numbers (edit ← 1 2 3 → Cardinal two Ordinal second Abbreviated ordinal :2nd Latinate ordinal secondary Reverse order ordinal :second last second to last second from last last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal :penultimate Adverbial two times twice Multiplier twofold Latinate multiplier :double Distributive doubly Germanic collective :pair twosome Collective of n parts :doublet couple couplet Greek or Latinate collective :dyad Metric collective prefix :double- Greek collective prefix :di- duo- Latinate collective prefix :bi- Fractional half Metric fractional prefix :demi- Latinate fractional prefix :semi- Greek fractional prefix :hemi- Elemental :twin doublet Greek prefix :deutero- Number of musicians :duo duet duplet Number of years :biennium
FromMiddle English secundarie Latin secundārius ( “ of the second class or quality ” ) , fromsecundus English second -ārius -ary second -ary French secondaire Italian secondario Occitan secundari Portuguese secundario Spanish secundario
secondary (not generallycomparable ,comparative moresecondary ,superlative mostsecondary )
Next in order to the first orprimary ; of second place in origin, rank, etc. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.the work ofsecondary hands
( organic chemistry ) ( geology ) alteration ordeposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.( geology ) pressure or other causes.secondary cleavage
( anatomy ) joint of the wing of a bird.( medicine ) consequent upon anotherdisease , or occurring in the second stage of a disease.Antonym: idiopathic Bright's disease is oftensecondary to scarlet fever.
thesecondary symptoms of syphilis
Of less thanprimary importance.asecondary issue
1992 Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-state Israel , page227 :the problem of sexual equality became evenmore secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members.
( education ) secondary education , i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.( manufacturing ) manufacture ofgoods fromraw materials .( of acolor ) mixing primary colors .Yellow is asecondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
( taxonomy , not comparable ) 2016 May 27, Wayne M. Matthis, Luciane Marinoni, “Revision of Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Americas south of the United States”, inZootaxa , volume4116 , number 1,→DOI With the exception of asecondary loss inDimecoenia , larvae of Ephydrini have prominent, ventral prolegs that bear crochets.
Terms derived fromsecondary (adjective)
succeeding first
Arabic:ثَانَوِي m ( Thānawī ) Bulgarian:вторичен (bg) ( vtoričen ) Catalan:secundari (ca) m secundària (ca) f Danish:sekundær Dutch:secundair (nl) Esperanto:sekundara duagrada duaperioda French:secondaire (fr) Galician:secundario (gl) Georgian:მეორადი ( meoradi ) German:sekundär (de) Greek:δευτερεύων (el) m ( defterévon ) Hindi:द्वितीय (hi) ( dvitīya ) ,दूसरा (hi) ( dūsrā ) Ido:sekundara (io) Indonesian:sekunder (id) Italian:secondario (it) m secondaria (it) f Japanese:二次的な (ja) ( にじてきな, nijiteki na ) ,二義的な (ja) ( にぎてきな, nigiteki na ) ,副次的な (ja) ( ふくじてきな, fukujiteki na ) Lithuanian:antrinis Malayalam:ദ്വിതീയ (ml) ( dvitīya ) Norman:s'gondaithe Polish:drugorzędny (pl) Portuguese:secundário (pt) Romanian:secundar (ro) Russian:втори́чный (ru) ( vtoríčnyj ) Scottish Gaelic:dàrnach Spanish:secundario (es) Tatar:икенчел ( ikençel ) Turkish:ikincil (tr) Vietnamese:thứ hai (vi) ,thứ nhì thứ cấp (vi) Yiddish:צווייטיק ( tsveytik )
secondary (plural secondaries
( ornithology ) flight feather attached to theulna (forearm) of a bird.( aviation ) radar return generated by the response of an aircraft'stransponder to aninterrogation signalbroadcast by a radar installation, containing additionalencoded identification and situational data not available from a simpleprimary return.( military ) thermonuclear weapon , which generates afusion explosion whenimploded as an indirect result of thefission explosion of theprimary , and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusiontertiary .( finance ) stock by an already publicly traded corporation.( American football , Canadian football ) defensive backs .( electronics ) inductive coil orloop that is magneticallypowered by aprimary in a transformer or similar.One who occupies asubordinate orauxiliary place; adelegate deputy .thesecondary , or undersheriff, of the city of London
c. 1603–1604 (date written)William Shakespeare , “Measure for Measure ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene i] :Old Escalus[ …] secondary .
( astronomy ) secondary circle .( astronomy ) satellite .( education ) secondary school .There are foursecondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
Ellipsis ofsecondary colour Anything secondary or of lesser importance. flight feather attached to the ulna
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