secondary meaning
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[ˈsɛkənd(ə)rɪ] 
US WSecondary
- Secondary is an adjective meaning "second" or "second hand". It may refer to:
- The group of (usually at least four) defensive backs in American football and Canadian football
- An obsolete name for the Mesozoic in geosciences
- The secondary winding, or the electrical or electronic circuit connected to the secondary winding in a transformer
- Secondary emission, the phenomenon where primary incident particles of sufficient energy, when hitting a surface or passing through some material, induce the emission of secondary particles
- NounPLsecondariesSUF-ary
- Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
- (electronics) 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.
- the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
- (astronomy) A secondary circle.
- (astronomy) A satellite.
- Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.
- AdjectiveCOMmore secondarySUPmost secondary
- Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
- Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
- 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.
- (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.
- (zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- (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.
- Of less than primary importance.
- the problem of sexual equality became even more secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members.
- (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
- Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- BioVelocity could not run on normal cluster architectures with limited memory, or would take orders of magnitude longer if secondary storage were used for the kmer hash tables.
- The different slippery sequences, intercodons, and downstream secondary structures facilitated a frameshift efficiency that was ~2.5-fold higher for PEG10 than for HIV-1 (Fig 1 ).
- The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of secondary in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "secondary" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.