secondarily


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
secondary/ˈsekəndri/
adjective
  • 1 coming after, less important than, or resulting from something primary.
  • 2 relating to education for children from the age of eleven to sixteen or eighteen.
  • 3 of or denoting the output side of a transformer or other inductive device.
  • 4 Chemistry (of an organic compound) having its functional group on a carbon atom bonded to two other carbon atoms.

    ■ derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by organic groups.

  • 5 (Secondary) Geology former term for Mesozoic.
  • 6 (of a cell or battery) having a reversible chemical reaction and therefore able to store energy.
– derivatives
secondarily adverb,
secondariness noun.
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