secondary
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.
secondarily adverb,
secondariness noun.
'secondary' also found in these Oxford entries:
academy
- adjuvant
- alter ego
- arisings
- autotransformer
- B
- branch line
- by-
- by-form
- bypass
- by-product
- cadet
- cask-conditioned
- Cassegrain telescope
- City Technology College
- collateral
- community college
- complication
- comprehensive
- CSE
- deutero-
- deuterocanonical
- deuterostome
- eleven-plus
- epiphenomenon
- flight feather
- GCSE
- ghost
- ghosting
- gossan
- grammar school
- Gregorian telescope
- high school
- knock-on
- liver fluke
- lycée
- malolactic
- marginal
- metastasis
- navel orange
- Newtonian
- orf
- outrigger
- periphery
- pinnule
- public school
- reverse
- Seconal
- secondary colour
