secondary
Definitions
- Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc
- 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.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- 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.
- Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass
- The defensive backs.
- Developed by pressure or other causes
- 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.
- A secondary circle.
- A satellite.
- A secondary school.
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Ellipsis of secondary colour. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
Equivalents
24 more languages
العربيةثانوي
BosanskiA
Ελληνικάδευτερεύων
Suomitoisio
Gàidhligdàrna ite sgèith
HrvatskiA
Bahasa Indonesiasekunder
ქართულიმეორადი
한국어2차적
Kurdîa
മലയാളംദ്വിതീയ
Nederlandssecundair
Polskidrugorzędny
Portuguêssecundário
Românăsecundar
Русскийвторичный
СрпскиA
Türkçeikincil
Examples
“the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London”
“Old Escalus […] is thy secondary.”
“There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
See also
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