Definition of secondary in English:

secondary

adjective ˈsɛk(ə)nd(ə)riˈsɛkənˌdɛri

1Coming after, less important than, or resulting from someone or something else that is primary.
luck plays a role, but it's ultimately secondary to local knowledge
Example sentencesExamples
- The plot seems almost secondary to the idea of being offbeat.
- The villain is so lacking in character or interest that he seems secondary.
- Providing humanitarian aid was secondary to supporting combat operations.
- Similarly, texts have a secondary importance - the primary mode of transmission of knowledge is oral.
- There is no doubt that secondary endosymbiosis involves a complicated series of events.
- Frequently, sequestration is discovered when a patient develops symptoms that are usually secondary to infection or associated cardiac disease.
- But, important as it was, it was still secondary to Johnny's primary concern and that was people.
- Variables such as artist, condition and rarity are secondary in importance.
- Ownership is important, but it's secondary to generating competition.
- The consequence is that secondary bacterial infection is quite common in diseased skin.
- The vascular lesions are probably secondary to chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the adjacent lung.
- The authors conclude that secondary prevention of stroke requires dietary, smoking, medical and, possibly, surgical intervention.
- But it seems inexplicable that he used so few primary as well as secondary materials.
- Most of the speakers felt that men had always treated women as secondary beings.
- To maintain growth Ryanair will need to continue seeking out new routes to new secondary airports.
- Each group or person has individual goals - but in a partnership, they have to be secondary to the primary joint goal.
- As the centuries passed, personal loyalty and service became almost secondary to the acquisition of property.
- In some senses, the race is secondary to the social importance of this event.
- In the parts related to these subjects of the study, again, mostly secondary sources were used.
- We were doing our best, but our role was becoming distinctly secondary.
Synonyms
subordinate, lesser, lower, lower-level, minor, peripheral, incidental, tangential, marginal, ancillary, subsidiary, subservient, non-essential, inessential, of little account, unimportant, less important
indirect, non-primary, derived, derivative, resulting, resultant, concomitant, accompanying, consequential, contingent, second-hand
alternative, spare, extra, additional, another, backup, supporting, relief, fallback, substitute, auxiliary
North American alternate
1. 1.1 Relating to education for children from the age of eleven to sixteen or eighteen.
  a secondary school
  Example sentencesExamples
  I did my secondary education at Chibi High School, a boarding school.
  The pointillist painting method can be adapted to all levels of elementary and secondary art education.
  Many students drop out of secondary education or university.
  Louis studied at the Lyceé Janson de Sailly in Paris completing his secondary school education in 1909.
  Primary education lasts until the age of eleven, followed by secondary education.
  The new secondary school will open in September.
  All four colleges provided training for secondary school teachers on integrated academic curricula.
  At least for secondary school teachers, you could crowd all the education stuff that you need on lesson planning and discipline into one class.
  No, I spent primary school and my secondary education in a State school.
  In our work as secondary English educators, we know we should routinely consider the literacy practices that best meet the needs of our students.
  After I felt that my mission had drawn to a close, I was assigned to teach physical education to Taiwanese secondary school students.
  The Schools Minister added that a new secondary school will be built in Swindon by 2011.
  Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin, offers kindergarten, junior and secondary level education for girls.
  Mr Curtis said he hoped to take a primary school teacher and a secondary school science head teacher with him on his trip, which could be in May.
  About 90 percent of students who finish elementary school continue their education at the secondary level.
  I teach them for eight years before they go to boarding school to complete their secondary education.
  As the Secretary of State for Education embarks on secondary curriculum revision, can we hope he will seize a tide?
  Such a system is needed to make post secondary education more accessible.
  All but two students had received secondary school education in the United Kingdom.
  Recommended course series for early childhood educators, elementary educators, and secondary educators have been designed.
  Very few teachers, especially in secondary schools, were funded to develop new curricula for themselves using computers.
2. 1.2 Having a reversible chemical reaction and therefore able to store energy.
  the lead-acid accumulator used in cars consists of secondary cells
  Example sentencesExamples
  ATP is the power molecule used all over organisms and their cells to power the secondary reactions that keep us alive.
3. 1.3 Relating to or denoting the output side of a device using electromagnetic induction, especially in a transformer.
  the primary and secondary coils of the transformer
  Example sentencesExamples
  The reverse polarity creates a peak current about twice as high as the six amps of coil current on the primary side, and a higher peak-to-peak current on the secondary side.
  It's broadly the same way a power transformer works, with a primary coil generating a current in a secondary coil, the difference between the number of loops in each coil governing the change to the voltage.
  The burst in current causes a change in voltage in the secondary coil, which in turn causes a change in voltage in the feedback coil.
  The alternating flux in the core in turn induces an alternating current in each of the secondary coils.
  Apply the ac voltage to the primary winding and expect output voltage at the secondary side.
2Geology
former term for Mesozoic
Example sentencesExamples
- These big limestone tables are formed in the secondary era.
- We learn that there was a time when Cephalopoda were the highest types of animal life; and that during the secondary period they were anatomically raised far above any forms of the reptile class now living in the world.
3Chemistry
(of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to two other carbon atoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this example, the first molecule is a primary alcohol and the second is a secondary alcohol.
- Just aft of the close-coupled catalyst sits a particulate filter and secondary oxidation catalyst.
- Manufacture of ketones can also be carried out by the dehydrogenation of a secondary alcohol at high temperature.
- Similar to ions, secreted secondary compounds are positioned to be leached to the soil, in some cases for the purpose of contributing to allelopathy.
1. 3.1 (chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by organic groups.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The acidic pH of the stomach would favour the nitrosation of secondary and tertiary amines in the quid.
  Reaction with nitrous acid is used to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary amines.
  Subsequent synthesis reactions using different primary, secondary, and aromatic amines had similar reaction and precipitation times.
  Tricyclic antidepressants may be categorized as secondary or tertiary amines.

nounPlural secondaries ˈsɛk(ə)nd(ə)riˈsɛkənˌdɛri

1British A secondary school.
Example sentencesExamples
- He had a ten-year-old daughter Sarah and was a former pupil of Braeburn primary school and Pindar secondary in Eastfield, near Scarborough.
- Their youngest daughter, of primary age, attends a state school but may go to a private secondary, a trend which could leave private primaries particularly vulnerable.
- As school gates closed for half-term, two more Sutton secondaries celebrated achieving specialist school status this week.
- About a third of Kent secondaries are grammar schools, another third secondary moderns and the rest comprehensives.
- Armed with the slogan dreamed up by a pupil at an Egremont secondary, Cumbria County Council's education welfare team has launched a campaign to keep children in the classroom.
- St Matthew's was one of eighty four schools to close in Manchester - 66 primaries, 10 secondaries and eight special schools.
- John Patterson, head of Bingley Grammar School, said the secondary would face a budget deficit of £300,000 if classes remained at their present sizes.
- This includes the town's only Catholic secondary, McAuley High School, in Cantley, which fears its ‘unique culture’ may be at risk.
- Ofsted inspected 3,041 primary schools, 122 nurseries and 551 secondaries.
- Bingley Grammar School is the only secondary in Bradford - and one of just a handful in the region - to have been singled out for special praise.
- The one secondary, 12 primaries and two nursery schools are among 700 nationwide receiving a share in a £6 million Government handout.
- Glasgow city council is now testing Flippers cards in 12 primary schools and two secondaries.
- This may include more links between secondaries and colleges.
- The absence of history in the primary school and its reduced presence in the junior secondary deprives students of the necessary background for historiographical judgment.
- Pupils absent each day could fill 816 primary schools and 252 secondaries.
- We will transfer the success of what has happened in primary schools to secondaries,’ he said.
- The study looked at three Fuel Zones in the city's schools, two secondaries and one primary school.
- In the first two days alone, in the Chorlton area, they stopped 73 youngsters, 17 from primary schools and 56 from secondaries.
- Edinburgh has created 50 training places in primary schools and 48 in secondaries, but each figure is about 25 short of the number required.
- Academies are new state schools which replace existing secondaries considered to be failing.
2A secondary coil or winding in an electrical transformer.
Example sentencesExamples
- Each secondary will feature 672 voice-coil actuators, now in the final stages of fabrication in Italy.
3Ornithology
A secondary feather.
Example sentencesExamples
- Characteristics shared with other Apodiformes include: tiny feet, long wings with long primaries, short humeri and short secondaries.
- The white secondaries of each wing were clearly visible, separated by the black back of the bird, and they reached all the way to the trailing edge of the wings.
- One or more additional layers of shorter feathers may overlie the proximal parts of the flight primaries and secondaries.
- It is mostly black, with white at the trailing edge of the secondaries, on the sides of the rump, and on the throat, narrowing towards the belly.
- In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries.
4the SecondaryGeology
dated The Secondary or Mesozoic era.

Derivatives

secondariness

noun

Even the way in which Eliza on the ice, Eva on her deathbed, or Tom's whipping at the hands of Legree persist as types outside of the novel suggests a certain unreality or secondariness about the novel's world.
Example sentencesExamples
- And history it seems is not a text, a reproduction; or at least the question is avoided by pointing at the allegedly exemplary secondariness of literature.
- The difference here is that the transformative power of echo is also used to assert an authoritative position, hence complicating the gendered association between echo and secondariness.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin secundarius 'of the second quality or class', from secundus (see second¹).

Definition of secondary in US English:

secondary

adjectiveˈsɛkənˌdɛriˈsekənˌderē

1Coming after, less important than, or resulting from someone or something else that is primary.
luck plays a role, but it's ultimately secondary to local knowledge
Example sentencesExamples
- In some senses, the race is secondary to the social importance of this event.
- The consequence is that secondary bacterial infection is quite common in diseased skin.
- There is no doubt that secondary endosymbiosis involves a complicated series of events.
- The plot seems almost secondary to the idea of being offbeat.
- To maintain growth Ryanair will need to continue seeking out new routes to new secondary airports.
- But it seems inexplicable that he used so few primary as well as secondary materials.
- The villain is so lacking in character or interest that he seems secondary.
- The authors conclude that secondary prevention of stroke requires dietary, smoking, medical and, possibly, surgical intervention.
- As the centuries passed, personal loyalty and service became almost secondary to the acquisition of property.
- Providing humanitarian aid was secondary to supporting combat operations.
- Each group or person has individual goals - but in a partnership, they have to be secondary to the primary joint goal.
- But, important as it was, it was still secondary to Johnny's primary concern and that was people.
- We were doing our best, but our role was becoming distinctly secondary.
- The vascular lesions are probably secondary to chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the adjacent lung.
- Ownership is important, but it's secondary to generating competition.
- Most of the speakers felt that men had always treated women as secondary beings.
- In the parts related to these subjects of the study, again, mostly secondary sources were used.
- Frequently, sequestration is discovered when a patient develops symptoms that are usually secondary to infection or associated cardiac disease.
- Similarly, texts have a secondary importance - the primary mode of transmission of knowledge is oral.
- Variables such as artist, condition and rarity are secondary in importance.
Synonyms
subordinate, lesser, lower, lower-level, minor, peripheral, incidental, tangential, marginal, ancillary, subsidiary, subservient, non-essential, inessential, of little account, unimportant, less important
indirect, non-primary, derived, derivative, resulting, resultant, concomitant, accompanying, consequential, contingent, second-hand
alternative, spare, extra, additional, another, backup, supporting, relief, fallback, substitute, auxiliary
1. 1.1attributive Relating to education for children from the age of eleven to sixteen or eighteen.
  a secondary school
  Example sentencesExamples
  In our work as secondary English educators, we know we should routinely consider the literacy practices that best meet the needs of our students.
  Many students drop out of secondary education or university.
  After I felt that my mission had drawn to a close, I was assigned to teach physical education to Taiwanese secondary school students.
  All but two students had received secondary school education in the United Kingdom.
  As the Secretary of State for Education embarks on secondary curriculum revision, can we hope he will seize a tide?
  Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin, offers kindergarten, junior and secondary level education for girls.
  I teach them for eight years before they go to boarding school to complete their secondary education.
  The new secondary school will open in September.
  About 90 percent of students who finish elementary school continue their education at the secondary level.
  Such a system is needed to make post secondary education more accessible.
  Recommended course series for early childhood educators, elementary educators, and secondary educators have been designed.
  I did my secondary education at Chibi High School, a boarding school.
  The Schools Minister added that a new secondary school will be built in Swindon by 2011.
  No, I spent primary school and my secondary education in a State school.
  At least for secondary school teachers, you could crowd all the education stuff that you need on lesson planning and discipline into one class.
  Very few teachers, especially in secondary schools, were funded to develop new curricula for themselves using computers.
  All four colleges provided training for secondary school teachers on integrated academic curricula.
  The pointillist painting method can be adapted to all levels of elementary and secondary art education.
  Louis studied at the Lyceé Janson de Sailly in Paris completing his secondary school education in 1909.
  Primary education lasts until the age of eleven, followed by secondary education.
  Mr Curtis said he hoped to take a primary school teacher and a secondary school science head teacher with him on his trip, which could be in May.
2. 1.2 Having a reversible chemical reaction and therefore able to store energy.
  Example sentencesExamples
  ATP is the power molecule used all over organisms and their cells to power the secondary reactions that keep us alive.
3. 1.3 Relating to or denoting the output side of a device using electromagnetic induction, especially in a transformer.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The burst in current causes a change in voltage in the secondary coil, which in turn causes a change in voltage in the feedback coil.
  The alternating flux in the core in turn induces an alternating current in each of the secondary coils.
  The reverse polarity creates a peak current about twice as high as the six amps of coil current on the primary side, and a higher peak-to-peak current on the secondary side.
  Apply the ac voltage to the primary winding and expect output voltage at the secondary side.
  It's broadly the same way a power transformer works, with a primary coil generating a current in a secondary coil, the difference between the number of loops in each coil governing the change to the voltage.
2Geology
former term for Mesozoic
Example sentencesExamples
- We learn that there was a time when Cephalopoda were the highest types of animal life; and that during the secondary period they were anatomically raised far above any forms of the reptile class now living in the world.
- These big limestone tables are formed in the secondary era.
3Chemistry
(of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to two other carbon atoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this example, the first molecule is a primary alcohol and the second is a secondary alcohol.
- Manufacture of ketones can also be carried out by the dehydrogenation of a secondary alcohol at high temperature.
- Just aft of the close-coupled catalyst sits a particulate filter and secondary oxidation catalyst.
- Similar to ions, secreted secondary compounds are positioned to be leached to the soil, in some cases for the purpose of contributing to allelopathy.
1. 3.1 (chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by organic groups.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Reaction with nitrous acid is used to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary amines.
  The acidic pH of the stomach would favour the nitrosation of secondary and tertiary amines in the quid.
  Tricyclic antidepressants may be categorized as secondary or tertiary amines.
  Subsequent synthesis reactions using different primary, secondary, and aromatic amines had similar reaction and precipitation times.

nounˈsɛkənˌdɛriˈsekənˌderē

1A secondary coil or winding in an electrical transformer.
Example sentencesExamples
- Each secondary will feature 672 voice-coil actuators, now in the final stages of fabrication in Italy.
2Ornithology
A secondary feather.
Example sentencesExamples
- In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries.
- It is mostly black, with white at the trailing edge of the secondaries, on the sides of the rump, and on the throat, narrowing towards the belly.
- The white secondaries of each wing were clearly visible, separated by the black back of the bird, and they reached all the way to the trailing edge of the wings.
- One or more additional layers of shorter feathers may overlie the proximal parts of the flight primaries and secondaries.
- Characteristics shared with other Apodiformes include: tiny feet, long wings with long primaries, short humeri and short secondaries.
3the SecondaryGeology
dated The Secondary or Mesozoic era.
4American Football
The players in the defensive backfield, or the area these players cover.
Example sentencesExamples
- Busted assignments, especially by a young secondary, have led to huge plays.
- Sure, that trio gave the Eagles perhaps the most formidable secondary in the league.
- He's an explosive playmaker who has the speed to get behind opposing secondaries for big plays.
- They also don't have the passing game to burn Baltimore's suspect secondary.
- Just as important, he is a stabilizing element in a young secondary.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin secundarius ‘of the second quality or class’, from secundus (see second).

单词	secondary
释义	Definition of secondary in English: secondary adjective ˈsɛk(ə)nd(ə)riˈsɛkənˌdɛri 1Coming after, less important than, or resulting from someone or something else that is primary. luck plays a role, but it's ultimately secondary to local knowledge Example sentencesExamples The plot seems almost secondary to the idea of being offbeat. The villain is so lacking in character or interest that he seems secondary. Providing humanitarian aid was secondary to supporting combat operations. Similarly, texts have a secondary importance - the primary mode of transmission of knowledge is oral. There is no doubt that secondary endosymbiosis involves a complicated series of events. Frequently, sequestration is discovered when a patient develops symptoms that are usually secondary to infection or associated cardiac disease. But, important as it was, it was still secondary to Johnny's primary concern and that was people. Variables such as artist, condition and rarity are secondary in importance. Ownership is important, but it's secondary to generating competition. The consequence is that secondary bacterial infection is quite common in diseased skin. The vascular lesions are probably secondary to chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the adjacent lung. The authors conclude that secondary prevention of stroke requires dietary, smoking, medical and, possibly, surgical intervention. But it seems inexplicable that he used so few primary as well as secondary materials. Most of the speakers felt that men had always treated women as secondary beings. To maintain growth Ryanair will need to continue seeking out new routes to new secondary airports. Each group or person has individual goals - but in a partnership, they have to be secondary to the primary joint goal. As the centuries passed, personal loyalty and service became almost secondary to the acquisition of property. In some senses, the race is secondary to the social importance of this event. In the parts related to these subjects of the study, again, mostly secondary sources were used. We were doing our best, but our role was becoming distinctly secondary. Synonyms subordinate, lesser, lower, lower-level, minor, peripheral, incidental, tangential, marginal, ancillary, subsidiary, subservient, non-essential, inessential, of little account, unimportant, less important indirect, non-primary, derived, derivative, resulting, resultant, concomitant, accompanying, consequential, contingent, second-hand alternative, spare, extra, additional, another, backup, supporting, relief, fallback, substitute, auxiliary North American alternate 1.1 Relating to education for children from the age of eleven to sixteen or eighteen. a secondary school Example sentencesExamples I did my secondary education at Chibi High School, a boarding school. The pointillist painting method can be adapted to all levels of elementary and secondary art education. Many students drop out of secondary education or university. Louis studied at the Lyceé Janson de Sailly in Paris completing his secondary school education in 1909. Primary education lasts until the age of eleven, followed by secondary education. The new secondary school will open in September. All four colleges provided training for secondary school teachers on integrated academic curricula. At least for secondary school teachers, you could crowd all the education stuff that you need on lesson planning and discipline into one class. No, I spent primary school and my secondary education in a State school. In our work as secondary English educators, we know we should routinely consider the literacy practices that best meet the needs of our students. After I felt that my mission had drawn to a close, I was assigned to teach physical education to Taiwanese secondary school students. The Schools Minister added that a new secondary school will be built in Swindon by 2011. Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin, offers kindergarten, junior and secondary level education for girls. Mr Curtis said he hoped to take a primary school teacher and a secondary school science head teacher with him on his trip, which could be in May. About 90 percent of students who finish elementary school continue their education at the secondary level. I teach them for eight years before they go to boarding school to complete their secondary education. As the Secretary of State for Education embarks on secondary curriculum revision, can we hope he will seize a tide? Such a system is needed to make post secondary education more accessible. All but two students had received secondary school education in the United Kingdom. Recommended course series for early childhood educators, elementary educators, and secondary educators have been designed. Very few teachers, especially in secondary schools, were funded to develop new curricula for themselves using computers. 1.2 Having a reversible chemical reaction and therefore able to store energy. the lead-acid accumulator used in cars consists of secondary cells Example sentencesExamples ATP is the power molecule used all over organisms and their cells to power the secondary reactions that keep us alive. 1.3 Relating to or denoting the output side of a device using electromagnetic induction, especially in a transformer. the primary and secondary coils of the transformer Example sentencesExamples The reverse polarity creates a peak current about twice as high as the six amps of coil current on the primary side, and a higher peak-to-peak current on the secondary side. It's broadly the same way a power transformer works, with a primary coil generating a current in a secondary coil, the difference between the number of loops in each coil governing the change to the voltage. The burst in current causes a change in voltage in the secondary coil, which in turn causes a change in voltage in the feedback coil. The alternating flux in the core in turn induces an alternating current in each of the secondary coils. Apply the ac voltage to the primary winding and expect output voltage at the secondary side. 2Geology former term for Mesozoic Example sentencesExamples These big limestone tables are formed in the secondary era. We learn that there was a time when Cephalopoda were the highest types of animal life; and that during the secondary period they were anatomically raised far above any forms of the reptile class now living in the world. 3Chemistry (of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to two other carbon atoms. Example sentencesExamples In this example, the first molecule is a primary alcohol and the second is a secondary alcohol. Just aft of the close-coupled catalyst sits a particulate filter and secondary oxidation catalyst. Manufacture of ketones can also be carried out by the dehydrogenation of a secondary alcohol at high temperature. Similar to ions, secreted secondary compounds are positioned to be leached to the soil, in some cases for the purpose of contributing to allelopathy. 3.1 (chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by organic groups. Example sentencesExamples The acidic pH of the stomach would favour the nitrosation of secondary and tertiary amines in the quid. Reaction with nitrous acid is used to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary amines. Subsequent synthesis reactions using different primary, secondary, and aromatic amines had similar reaction and precipitation times. Tricyclic antidepressants may be categorized as secondary or tertiary amines. nounPlural secondaries ˈsɛk(ə)nd(ə)riˈsɛkənˌdɛri 1British A secondary school. Example sentencesExamples He had a ten-year-old daughter Sarah and was a former pupil of Braeburn primary school and Pindar secondary in Eastfield, near Scarborough. Their youngest daughter, of primary age, attends a state school but may go to a private secondary, a trend which could leave private primaries particularly vulnerable. As school gates closed for half-term, two more Sutton secondaries celebrated achieving specialist school status this week. About a third of Kent secondaries are grammar schools, another third secondary moderns and the rest comprehensives. Armed with the slogan dreamed up by a pupil at an Egremont secondary, Cumbria County Council's education welfare team has launched a campaign to keep children in the classroom. St Matthew's was one of eighty four schools to close in Manchester - 66 primaries, 10 secondaries and eight special schools. John Patterson, head of Bingley Grammar School, said the secondary would face a budget deficit of £300,000 if classes remained at their present sizes. This includes the town's only Catholic secondary, McAuley High School, in Cantley, which fears its ‘unique culture’ may be at risk. Ofsted inspected 3,041 primary schools, 122 nurseries and 551 secondaries. Bingley Grammar School is the only secondary in Bradford - and one of just a handful in the region - to have been singled out for special praise. The one secondary, 12 primaries and two nursery schools are among 700 nationwide receiving a share in a £6 million Government handout. Glasgow city council is now testing Flippers cards in 12 primary schools and two secondaries. This may include more links between secondaries and colleges. The absence of history in the primary school and its reduced presence in the junior secondary deprives students of the necessary background for historiographical judgment. Pupils absent each day could fill 816 primary schools and 252 secondaries. We will transfer the success of what has happened in primary schools to secondaries,’ he said. The study looked at three Fuel Zones in the city's schools, two secondaries and one primary school. In the first two days alone, in the Chorlton area, they stopped 73 youngsters, 17 from primary schools and 56 from secondaries. Edinburgh has created 50 training places in primary schools and 48 in secondaries, but each figure is about 25 short of the number required. Academies are new state schools which replace existing secondaries considered to be failing. 2A secondary coil or winding in an electrical transformer. Example sentencesExamples Each secondary will feature 672 voice-coil actuators, now in the final stages of fabrication in Italy. 3Ornithology A secondary feather. Example sentencesExamples Characteristics shared with other Apodiformes include: tiny feet, long wings with long primaries, short humeri and short secondaries. The white secondaries of each wing were clearly visible, separated by the black back of the bird, and they reached all the way to the trailing edge of the wings. One or more additional layers of shorter feathers may overlie the proximal parts of the flight primaries and secondaries. It is mostly black, with white at the trailing edge of the secondaries, on the sides of the rump, and on the throat, narrowing towards the belly. In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries. 4the SecondaryGeology dated The Secondary or Mesozoic era. Derivatives secondariness noun Even the way in which Eliza on the ice, Eva on her deathbed, or Tom's whipping at the hands of Legree persist as types outside of the novel suggests a certain unreality or secondariness about the novel's world. Example sentencesExamples And history it seems is not a text, a reproduction; or at least the question is avoided by pointing at the allegedly exemplary secondariness of literature. The difference here is that the transformative power of echo is also used to assert an authoritative position, hence complicating the gendered association between echo and secondariness. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin secundarius 'of the second quality or class', from secundus (see second¹). Definition of secondary in US English: secondary adjectiveˈsɛkənˌdɛriˈsekənˌderē 1Coming after, less important than, or resulting from someone or something else that is primary. luck plays a role, but it's ultimately secondary to local knowledge Example sentencesExamples In some senses, the race is secondary to the social importance of this event. The consequence is that secondary bacterial infection is quite common in diseased skin. There is no doubt that secondary endosymbiosis involves a complicated series of events. The plot seems almost secondary to the idea of being offbeat. To maintain growth Ryanair will need to continue seeking out new routes to new secondary airports. But it seems inexplicable that he used so few primary as well as secondary materials. The villain is so lacking in character or interest that he seems secondary. The authors conclude that secondary prevention of stroke requires dietary, smoking, medical and, possibly, surgical intervention. As the centuries passed, personal loyalty and service became almost secondary to the acquisition of property. Providing humanitarian aid was secondary to supporting combat operations. Each group or person has individual goals - but in a partnership, they have to be secondary to the primary joint goal. But, important as it was, it was still secondary to Johnny's primary concern and that was people. We were doing our best, but our role was becoming distinctly secondary. The vascular lesions are probably secondary to chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the adjacent lung. Ownership is important, but it's secondary to generating competition. Most of the speakers felt that men had always treated women as secondary beings. In the parts related to these subjects of the study, again, mostly secondary sources were used. Frequently, sequestration is discovered when a patient develops symptoms that are usually secondary to infection or associated cardiac disease. Similarly, texts have a secondary importance - the primary mode of transmission of knowledge is oral. Variables such as artist, condition and rarity are secondary in importance. Synonyms subordinate, lesser, lower, lower-level, minor, peripheral, incidental, tangential, marginal, ancillary, subsidiary, subservient, non-essential, inessential, of little account, unimportant, less important indirect, non-primary, derived, derivative, resulting, resultant, concomitant, accompanying, consequential, contingent, second-hand alternative, spare, extra, additional, another, backup, supporting, relief, fallback, substitute, auxiliary 1.1attributive Relating to education for children from the age of eleven to sixteen or eighteen. a secondary school Example sentencesExamples In our work as secondary English educators, we know we should routinely consider the literacy practices that best meet the needs of our students. Many students drop out of secondary education or university. After I felt that my mission had drawn to a close, I was assigned to teach physical education to Taiwanese secondary school students. All but two students had received secondary school education in the United Kingdom. As the Secretary of State for Education embarks on secondary curriculum revision, can we hope he will seize a tide? Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin, offers kindergarten, junior and secondary level education for girls. I teach them for eight years before they go to boarding school to complete their secondary education. The new secondary school will open in September. About 90 percent of students who finish elementary school continue their education at the secondary level. Such a system is needed to make post secondary education more accessible. Recommended course series for early childhood educators, elementary educators, and secondary educators have been designed. I did my secondary education at Chibi High School, a boarding school. The Schools Minister added that a new secondary school will be built in Swindon by 2011. No, I spent primary school and my secondary education in a State school. At least for secondary school teachers, you could crowd all the education stuff that you need on lesson planning and discipline into one class. Very few teachers, especially in secondary schools, were funded to develop new curricula for themselves using computers. All four colleges provided training for secondary school teachers on integrated academic curricula. The pointillist painting method can be adapted to all levels of elementary and secondary art education. Louis studied at the Lyceé Janson de Sailly in Paris completing his secondary school education in 1909. Primary education lasts until the age of eleven, followed by secondary education. Mr Curtis said he hoped to take a primary school teacher and a secondary school science head teacher with him on his trip, which could be in May. 1.2 Having a reversible chemical reaction and therefore able to store energy. Example sentencesExamples ATP is the power molecule used all over organisms and their cells to power the secondary reactions that keep us alive. 1.3 Relating to or denoting the output side of a device using electromagnetic induction, especially in a transformer. Example sentencesExamples The burst in current causes a change in voltage in the secondary coil, which in turn causes a change in voltage in the feedback coil. The alternating flux in the core in turn induces an alternating current in each of the secondary coils. The reverse polarity creates a peak current about twice as high as the six amps of coil current on the primary side, and a higher peak-to-peak current on the secondary side. Apply the ac voltage to the primary winding and expect output voltage at the secondary side. It's broadly the same way a power transformer works, with a primary coil generating a current in a secondary coil, the difference between the number of loops in each coil governing the change to the voltage. 2Geology former term for Mesozoic Example sentencesExamples We learn that there was a time when Cephalopoda were the highest types of animal life; and that during the secondary period they were anatomically raised far above any forms of the reptile class now living in the world. These big limestone tables are formed in the secondary era. 3Chemistry (of an organic compound) having its functional group located on a carbon atom which is bonded to two other carbon atoms. Example sentencesExamples In this example, the first molecule is a primary alcohol and the second is a secondary alcohol. Manufacture of ketones can also be carried out by the dehydrogenation of a secondary alcohol at high temperature. Just aft of the close-coupled catalyst sits a particulate filter and secondary oxidation catalyst. Similar to ions, secreted secondary compounds are positioned to be leached to the soil, in some cases for the purpose of contributing to allelopathy. 3.1 (chiefly of amines) derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by organic groups. Example sentencesExamples Reaction with nitrous acid is used to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary amines. The acidic pH of the stomach would favour the nitrosation of secondary and tertiary amines in the quid. Tricyclic antidepressants may be categorized as secondary or tertiary amines. Subsequent synthesis reactions using different primary, secondary, and aromatic amines had similar reaction and precipitation times. nounˈsɛkənˌdɛriˈsekənˌderē 1A secondary coil or winding in an electrical transformer. Example sentencesExamples Each secondary will feature 672 voice-coil actuators, now in the final stages of fabrication in Italy. 2Ornithology A secondary feather. Example sentencesExamples In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries. It is mostly black, with white at the trailing edge of the secondaries, on the sides of the rump, and on the throat, narrowing towards the belly. The white secondaries of each wing were clearly visible, separated by the black back of the bird, and they reached all the way to the trailing edge of the wings. One or more additional layers of shorter feathers may overlie the proximal parts of the flight primaries and secondaries. Characteristics shared with other Apodiformes include: tiny feet, long wings with long primaries, short humeri and short secondaries. 3the SecondaryGeology dated The Secondary or Mesozoic era. 4American Football The players in the defensive backfield, or the area these players cover. Example sentencesExamples Busted assignments, especially by a young secondary, have led to huge plays. Sure, that trio gave the Eagles perhaps the most formidable secondary in the league. He's an explosive playmaker who has the speed to get behind opposing secondaries for big plays. They also don't have the passing game to burn Baltimore's suspect secondary. Just as important, he is a stabilizing element in a young secondary. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin secundarius ‘of the second quality or class’, from secundus (see second).
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