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Secondary

Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary
Concerns that are secondary.

Secondarily

Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary
Concerns that are secondary.

Secondary

Following what is first in time or sequence
Secondary fermentation.

Secondarily

Following what is first in time or sequence
Secondary fermentation.

Secondary

Of or relating to secondary schools.
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Secondarily

Of or relating to secondary schools.

Secondary

Derived from what is primary or original
Literary criticism viewed as secondary to literature itself.

Secondarily

Derived from what is primary or original
Literary criticism viewed as secondary to literature itself.

Secondary

Not immediate or direct
A secondary source of information.

Secondarily

Not immediate or direct
A secondary source of information.
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Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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.

Secondarily

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.

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.

Secondarily

Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

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

Secondarily

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

Secondary

The dimmer star of a binary star.

Secondarily

The dimmer star of a binary star.

Secondary

A secondary color.

Secondarily

A secondary color.

Secondary

(Football) The defensive backfield.

Secondarily

(Football) The defensive backfield.

Secondary

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

Secondarily

With lesser importance.
Primarily, this will cause deaths; secondarily, it will also cost a lot of money.

Secondary

Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
The work of secondary hands

Secondarily

In a secondary manner or degree.

Secondary

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

Secondarily

(obsolete) Secondly; in the second place.

Secondary

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

Secondarily

In a secondary manner or degree.

Secondary

(geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
Secondary cleavage

Secondarily

Secondly; in the second place.
God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers.

Secondary

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

Secondarily

Of secondary import;
Secondarily affected

Secondary

(medicine) 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

Secondary

Of less than primary importance.
A secondary issue

Secondary

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

Secondary

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

Secondary

(of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.

Secondary

Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.

Secondary

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

Secondary

(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.

Secondary

(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.

Secondary

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

Secondary

The defensive backs.

Secondary

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

Secondary

One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
The secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London

Secondary

(astronomy) A secondary circle.

Secondary

(astronomy) A satellite.

Secondary

(education) A secondary school.
There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.

Secondary

Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

Secondary

Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it.
Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four.

Secondary

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

Secondary

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.

Secondary

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.

Secondary

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

Secondary

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

Secondary

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.
Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary.

Secondary

A secondary circle.

Secondary

A secondary quill.

Secondary

The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

Secondary

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

Secondary

Of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate;
The stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher
A secondary source
A secondary issue
Secondary streams

Secondary

Inferior in rank or status;
The junior faculty
A lowly corporal
Petty officialdom
A subordinate functionary

Secondary

Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary;
A secondary infection

Secondary

Not of major importance;
Played a secondary role in world events

Secondary

Belonging to a lower class or rank

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