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Definition of Secondary

1. Adjective. Being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate. "Secondary streams"

2. Noun. The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen.

3. Adjective. Inferior in rank or status. "A subordinate functionary"

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

5. Adjective. Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary. "A secondary infection"

6. Adjective. Not of major importance. "Played a secondary role in world events"

7. Adjective. Belonging to a lower class or rank.

Definition of Secondary

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

2. n. 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.

Definition of Secondary

1. Adjective. Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. ¹

2. Adjective. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands. ¹

3. Adjective. Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary. ¹

4. Adjective. (geology) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes. ¹

5. Adjective. (zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. ¹

6. Adjective. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis. ¹

7. Adjective. Of less than primary importance. ¹

8. Adjective. (context: of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors. ¹

9. Noun. (non-gloss definition Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.) ¹

10. Noun. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird. ¹

11. Noun. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation. ¹

12. Noun. (American football), (Canadian football) The defensive backs. ¹

13. Noun. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Secondary

1. [n -RIES]

Medical Definition of Secondary

1. Second or inferior in order of time, place or importance, derived from or consequent to a primary event or thing. Origin: L. Secundarius, secundus = second This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary

second thoughts second tibial muscle second to none second tooth second trimester second unit second violin second violinist second violinists second wind

secondaries secondarily secondarily generalised tonic-clonic seizure secondariness secondarinesses secondary (current term) secondary X zone secondary abdominal pregnancy secondary adhesion secondary adrenocortical insufficiency

secondary aerodontalgia secondary agammaglobulinaemia secondary alcohol secondary alcohols secondary aldosteronism secondary amenorrhea secondary amenorrhoea secondary amine secondary amine monooxygenase secondary amines

Literary usage of Secondary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"EXPLORATION OF THE FIELD BY MEANS OF THE secondary CIRCUIT. 585.] WE have proved in Arts. 582, 583, 584 that the electromagnetic action between ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk ( Maxwell (1873)
"EXPLORATION OP THE FIELD BY MEANS OP THE secondary CIRCUIT. 585.] We have proved in Arts. 582, 583, 584 that the electromagnetic action between the primary ..."

3. The Lancet (1842)
"He conceived that there existed аз many as four distinct venereal poisons, each characterised by a peculiar group of secondary affections, as well as by an ..."

4. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"DEPARTMENTAL NOTES secondary EDUCATION Teachers College announces the appointment of Dr. Julius Sachs, New York City, to the professorship of secondary ..."

5. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1921)
"The Reorganization of Science in secondary Schools of Great Britain and America (Two important reports of interest to administrators and teachers). ..."

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