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Secondary

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Noun

1. secondary

the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

2. secondary, secondary coil, secondary winding

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

Adjective

3. secondary

being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate

Example Sentences:
'the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher'
'a secondary source'
'a secondary issue'
'secondary streams'

4. junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary, subaltern

inferior in rank or status

Example Sentences:
'the junior faculty'
'a lowly corporal'
'petty officialdom'
'a subordinate functionary'

5. secondary

depending on or incidental to what is original or primary

Example Sentences:
'a secondary infection'

6. secondary

not of major importance

Example Sentences:
'played a secondary role in world events'

7. secondary

belonging to a lower class or rank

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Secondary

see synonyms of secondary
adjective
1. 
one grade or step after the first; not primary
2. 
derived from or depending on what is primary, original, or first
a secondary source
3. 
below the first in rank, importance, etc; not of major importance
4. (prenominal)
of or relating to the education of young people between the ages of 11 and 18
secondary education
5. 
(of the flight feathers of a bird's wing) growing from the ulna
6. 
a. 
being the part of an electric circuit, such as a transformer or induction coil, in which a current is induced by a changing current in a neighbouring coil
a secondary coil
b. 
(of a current) flowing in such a circuit
Compare primary (sense 7)
7. 
(of an industry) involving the manufacture of goods from raw materials
Compare primary (sense 8b), tertiary (sense 2)
8. geology
(of minerals) formed by the alteration of pre-existing minerals
9. chemistry
a. 
(of an organic compound) having a functional group attached to a carbon atom that is attached to one hydrogen atom and two other groups
b. 
(of an amine) having only two organic groups attached to a nitrogen atom; containing the group NH
c. 
(of a salt) derived from a tribasic acid by replacement of two acidic hydrogen atoms with metal atoms or electropositive groups
10. linguistics
a. 
derived from a word that is itself a derivation from another word. Thus, lovably comes from lovable and is a secondary derivative from love
b.  (of a tense in Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit) another word for historic (sense 3)
noun plural -aries
11. 
a person or thing that is secondary
12. 
a subordinate, deputy, or inferior
13. 
a secondary coil, winding, inductance, or current in an electric circuit
14. ornithology
any of the flight feathers that grow from the ulna of a bird's wing
primary (sense 6)
15. astronomy
a celestial body that orbits around a specified primary body
the moon is the secondary of the earth
16. medicine
a cancerous growth in some part of the body away from the site of the original tumour
17.  the secondary
18.  short for secondary colour

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Secondary

see synonyms of secondary
adjective
1. 
second, or below the first, in rank, importance, class, place, etc.; subordinate; minor; not primary
2. 
a. 
derived or resulting from something considered primary or original; dependent; derivative
b. 
secondhand; not original
a secondary source of information
c. 
designating colors derived by mixing two primary colors
see also color (sense 3)
3. 
coming after that which is first in a series of processes, events, stages, etc., as of growth or development
4. 
coming next in sequence after the primary or elementary level
secondary education
5.  Chemistry
a. 
formed by the replacement of two atoms or radicals in the molecule
secondary sodium phosphate, Na2HPO4
b. 
characterized by or designating a carbon atom that is directly attached to two other carbon atoms in a closed or open chain
6.  Electricity
designating or of an induced current or its circuit in a transformer, induction coil, etc.
7.  Geology
formed as a result of the alteration, disintegration, or erosion of preexisting rocks or minerals
8.  Linguistics
a. 
derived from a base that is itself a word, by the addition of a prefix or derivational suffix
b. 
designating a form or a process that is historically relatively late; not original
9.  Zoology
designating or of the long flight feathers attached to the second joint or segment of a bird's wing
nounWord forms: plural ˈsecondˌaries
10. 
a person or thing that is secondary, subordinate, or inferior
11. 
any of the secondary colors
12.  Electricity
an output winding of a transformer from which the power is taken
13.  American Football
the defensive backfield
14.  Zoology
a secondary feather

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Secondary

see synonyms of secondary
adj.
1. Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary: concerns that are secondary.
2.
a. Following what is first in time or sequence: secondary fermentation.
b. Of or relating to secondary schools.
3.
a. Derived from what is primary or original: literary criticism viewed as secondary to literature itself.
b. Not immediate or direct: a secondary source of information.
4. Of, relating to, or being the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.
5. Electricity Having an induced current that is generated by an inductively coupled primary. Used of a circuit or coil.
6. Chemistry
a. Relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to two other carbon atoms in a molecule.
b. 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.
7. Geology Produced from another mineral by decay or alteration.
8. Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.
9. Being a degree of health care intermediate between primary care and tertiary care, as that typically offered at a community hospital.
10. Botany Of, relating to, or derived from a lateral meristem, especially a cambium.
n. pl. sec·ond·ar·ies
1. One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity.
2. One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.
3. Electricity A coil or circuit having an induced current.
4.
a. Astronomy A celestial body that orbits another; a satellite.
b. The dimmer star of a binary star.
5. A secondary color.
6. Football The defensive backfield.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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