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secondary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsɛkənd(ə)ɹɪ/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈsɛkənˌdɛɹi/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, usually) Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
  2. (not-comparable, usually) Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
    • the work of secondary hands
  3. (not-comparable, usually) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
  4. (not-comparable, usually) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
  5. (not-comparable, usually) Developed by pressure or other causes.
    • secondary cleavage
  6. (not-comparable, usually) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
  7. (not-comparable, usually) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
    • Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
    • the secondary symptoms of syphilis
  8. (not-comparable, usually) Of less than primary importance.
    • a secondary issue
    • the problem of sexual equality became even more secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members. 1992, Deborah Bernstein, Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-state Israel, page 227:
  9. (not-comparable, usually) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
  10. (not-comparable, usually) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
  11. (not-comparable, of a color, usually) Formed by mixing primary colors.
    • Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
  12. (not-comparable, usually) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
    • With the exception of a secondary loss in Dimecoenia, larvae of Ephydrini have prominent, ventral prolegs that bear crochets. 2016 May 27, Wayne M. Matthis, Luciane Marinoni, “Revision of Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Americas south of the United States”, in Zootaxa, volume 4116, number 1, →DOI:

Forms

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more secondary Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most secondary Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

idiopathic

Coordinates

octonary (Of less than primary importance.) · primary (Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.) · tertiary (Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.) · quaternary (Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.) · vigenary · quinary (Developed by pressure or other causes.) · septenary (Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.) · denary (Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.) · senary (Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.) · duodenary (Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.) · nonary (Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.)

Deriveds

secondary world (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary victimisation (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary industry (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary fermentation (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary phosphine (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary fire (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary infection (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary school (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary amine (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · postsecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary liability (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary cell wall (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary education (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary sanction (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary smoking (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary virginity (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary stress (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary color (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary valence (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary hypothermia (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary ion mass spectrometry (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary radar (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary emission (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary sex characteristic (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary vaping (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary energy (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary tech (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary technical school (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary source (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary work (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary cell (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · circumsecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary research (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary drowning (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary surveillance radar (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · presecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary structure (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary root (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary market (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary diagonal (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary planet (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary alcohol (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary dominant (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary immunodeficiency (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary sector (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary circle (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary explosive (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · intersecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · supersecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary colour (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondarily (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary victimization (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondary intention (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · secondariness (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · nonsecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · Seconal (Terms derived from secondary (adjective)) · semisecondary (Terms derived from secondary (adjective))

Synonyms

associate

Translations (44)

lt antrinis (succeeding first) · ar ثَانَوِي (succeeding first) · bg вторичен (succeeding first) · ja 二次的な (succeeding first) · pl drugorzędny (succeeding first) · ka მეორადი (succeeding first) · ro secundar (succeeding first) · fi sekundaarinen (succeeding first) · ca secundària (succeeding first) · id sekunder (succeeding first) · bg помощен (acting by deputation) · fr secondaire (succeeding first) · pl pomocniczy (acting by deputation) · pt secundário (succeeding first) · gd dàrnach (succeeding first) · vi thứ hai (succeeding first) · es suplente (acting by deputation) · ja 副次的な (succeeding first) · yi צווייטיק (succeeding first) · fi toissijainen (succeeding first) · gl secundario (succeeding first) · ja 二義的な (succeeding first) · vi thứ cấp (succeeding first) · es secundario (succeeding first) · hi दूसरा (succeeding first) · eo sekundara (succeeding first) · el δευτερεύων (succeeding first) · ru втори́чный (succeeding first) · vi thứ nhì (succeeding first) · ml ദ്വിതീയ (succeeding first) · nrf s'gondaithe (succeeding first) · eo duagrada (succeeding first) · da sekundær (succeeding first) · nl plaatsvervangend (acting by deputation) · eo duaperioda (succeeding first) · nl secundair (succeeding first) · it secondaria (succeeding first) · it secondario (succeeding first) · tr ikincil (succeeding first) · io sekundara (succeeding first) · hi द्वितीय (succeeding first) · tt икенчел (succeeding first) · ca secundari (succeeding first) · de sekundär (succeeding first)

secondary en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsɛkənd(ə)ɹɪ/ (UK)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈsɛkənˌdɛɹi/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

Meanings

  1. Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
  2. A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
  3. The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
  4. An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
  5. (Canadian) The defensive backs.
  6. An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
  7. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
    • the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
    • Old Escalus […] is thy secondary. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  8. A secondary circle.
  9. A satellite.
  10. A secondary school.
    • There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of secondary colour.
  12. Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

Forms

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secondaries Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (3)

pl lotka drugiego rzędu (flight feather attached to the ulna) · gd dàrna ite sgèith (flight feather attached to the ulna) · de Armschwinge (flight feather attached to the ulna)