| 单词 | secondary |
| 释义 | Word Frequency secondary(ˈsɛkəndərɪ, -drɪ) 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) nounWord forms: 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 Derived forms secondarily (ˈsecondarily) adverb secondariness (ˈsecondariness) noun |
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