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Secondary   /sˈɛkəndˌɛri/   Listen
Secondary

adjective
1.
Being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.  "A secondary source" , "A secondary issue" , "Secondary streams"
2.
Inferior in rank or status.  Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern.  "A lowly corporal" , "Petty officialdom" , "A subordinate functionary"
3.
Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary.
4.
Not of major importance.
5.
Belonging to a lower class or rank.
noun
(pl. secondaries)
1.
The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen.
2.
Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil.  Synonyms: secondary coil, secondary winding.



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"Secondary" Quotes from Famous Books



... just the same sort of thing, Carrie. I can see Mr. Medlin's hand in it, everywhere. He says that, for the time, I must regard my connection with the firm as of secondary importance; and take any opportunity that offers to show the spirit of an English gentleman, by doing all in my power to uphold the dignity of the British flag; and taking any becoming part that may offer, in the defence of the ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... of Hindu mythology—and presided over the forty-nine Winds. He has a heaven of his own (Swarga), of which he is the lord, and, although inferior to the three great deities of the Hindu Triad (Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva), he is chief of the secondary gods. The Hindus represent the Sun as seated in a chariot, drawn by seven green horses, having before him a lovely youth without legs, who acts as his charioteer, and who is Aruna, ...
— Sakoontala or The Lost Ring - An Indian Drama • Kalidasa

... of Incident and Mood.—Allied to the fact as effect is the incident which makes us know something more than the happening itself. All incidents we may distinguish under the symbols In1, In2a, In2b, the secondary symbols having the significance as with F above. Mood effects are, in general, more important, and it will be worth while to distinguish three sorts, m1, an inference which we draw regarding the mood of the writer, m2, a like inference which becomes infectious, creating ...
— The Writing of the Short Story • Lewis Worthington Smith

... is manifest now that if the Belgian and French frontiers had been properly prepared—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways—with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and tertiary lines, the Germans would never have got fifty miles into either France or Belgium. They would have been held at Liege and in the Ardennes. Five hundred thousand men would have held them indefinitely. ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells

... on imports of raw materials, energy, and some components for manufactured goods. Because of the climate, agricultural development is limited to maintaining self-sufficiency in basic products. Forestry, an important export earner, provides a secondary occupation for the rural population. Rapidly increasing integration with Western Europe - Finland was one of the 12 countries joining the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) - will dominate the economic picture over the next several years. Growth in 2003 was held back by the global slowdown ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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