Secondary vs. Secondarily — What's the Difference?

Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary

Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary

Following what is first in time or sequence

Following what is first in time or sequence

Of or relating to secondary schools.

Of or relating to secondary schools.

Derived from what is primary or original

Derived from what is primary or original

Not immediate or direct

Not immediate or direct

Of, relating to, or being the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.

Of, relating to, or being the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.

(Electricity) Having an induced current that is generated by an inductively coupled primary. Used of a circuit or coil.

(Electricity) Having an induced current that is generated by an inductively coupled primary. Used of a circuit or coil.

Relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to two other carbon atoms in a molecule.

Relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to two other carbon atoms in a molecule.

Relating to the replacement of two of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which two valences of the functional group are taken by carbon atoms.

Relating to the replacement of two of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which two valences of the functional group are taken by carbon atoms.

(Geology) Produced from another mineral by decay or alteration.

(Geology) Produced from another mineral by decay or alteration.

Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.

Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.

Being a degree of health care intermediate between primary care and tertiary care, as that typically offered at a community hospital.

Being a degree of health care intermediate between primary care and tertiary care, as that typically offered at a community hospital.

(Botany) Of, relating to, or derived from a lateral meristem, especially a cambium.

(Botany) Of, relating to, or derived from a lateral meristem, especially a cambium.

One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity.

One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity.

One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.

One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.

(Electricity) A coil or circuit having an induced current.

(Electricity) A coil or circuit having an induced current.

(Astronomy) A celestial body that orbits another; a satellite.

(Astronomy) A celestial body that orbits another; a satellite.

The dimmer star of a binary star.

The dimmer star of a binary star.

A secondary color.

A secondary color.

(Football) The defensive backfield.

(Football) The defensive backfield.

Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.

With lesser importance.

Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body

In a secondary manner or degree.

(organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals

(obsolete) Secondly; in the second place.

(geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.

In a secondary manner or degree.

(geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.

Secondly; in the second place.

(anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

Of secondary import;

(medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.

Of less than primary importance.

(education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.

(manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.

(of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.

Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.

(aviation) 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.

(military) 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.

(finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.

The defensive backs.

(electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.

One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.

(astronomy) A secondary circle.

(astronomy) A satellite.

(education) A secondary school.

Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

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.

Subsequent in origin; - said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.

One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.

A secondary circle.

A secondary quill.

The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

Of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate;

Inferior in rank or status;

Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary;

Not of major importance;

Belonging to a lower class or rank