Look up: Secondary

1. secondary
   [adj] - depending on or incidental to what is original or primary 2. [adj] - of second rank or importance or value 3. [adj] - not of major importance 4. [adj] - belonging to a lower class or rank 5. [n] - the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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2. Secondary
   The smaller or dimmer component of a pair of celestial objects that orbits the primary object.
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3. Secondary
   (Phase of Education) Full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age who are either Senior Pupils or Junior pupils who have attained the age of 10 yrs and 6 months and whom it is expedient to educate together with senior pupils of compulsory school age.
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4. Secondary
   describes a disease or disorder that follows or is caused by another one
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5. Secondary
   cancer tissue that has spread from the original or primary site - the usual meanings of subsidiary, less important, consequent upon etc.
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6. secondary
   taking second place; 2)of the nature of a metastasis Category: Medicine • descriptive of fluid at high pressure applied to the outlet port of the pressure intensifier, and of anything concerned with the fluid: flow, pressure, circuit Category: Mechanical engineering
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7. Secondary
   Sec'ond·a·ry adjective [ Confer French secondaire , Latin secundaire . See Second , adjective ] 1. Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinat...
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8. Secondary
   Sec'ond·a·ry noun ; plural Secondaries 1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary , or undersheriff of the city ...
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9. secondary
   Second or inferior in order of time, place or importance, derived from or consequent to a primary event or thing. ... Origin: L. Secundarius, secundus = second ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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10. secondary
    adjective belonging to a lower class or rank
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11. secondary
    adjective not of major importance; `played a secondary role in world events`
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12. secondary
    adjective depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; `a secondary infection`
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13. secondary
    noun the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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14. Secondary
    • (a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. • (n.) A secondary quill. • (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands. &...
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15. Secondary
    (from the article `geochronology`) ...recognized the existence of three distinct rock assemblages: (1) a successionally lowest category, the Primary (Urgebirge), composed mainly of ...
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16. secondary
    (L. secundarius; secundus second) second or inferior in order of time, place, or importance; derived from or consequent to a primary event or thing.
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17. secondary
    secondary 1. Belonging to the second class in respect of dignity or importance; entitled to consideration only in the second place. Also, and usually, in less precise sense: Not in the first class; not chief or principal; of minor importance, subordinate.2. Subsidiary, auxiliary; that which is used ...
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