second-order en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
- (not-comparable) Denoting the second in a numerical sequence of models, languages, relationships, forms of logical discourse etc.
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(not-comparable) Of secondary importance.
If reformers establish the specific process of crime policymaking... as a second-order concern, their efforts will not be weighed down by any one normative theory of fair process.
2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, pages 819–20:
Deriveds
second-order leveling · second-order station · second-order transition · second-order subroutine · second-order predicate · second-order election · second-order conditioning · second-order arithmetic · second-order logic · second-order relief · second-order simulacra · second-order reaction · second-order derivative · second-order fluid · second-order difference · second-order equation · second-order threat · second-order cybernetics