# secondary
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second +‎ -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛkənd(ə)ɹɪ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈsɛkənˌdɛɹi/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

Latinate ordinals :
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secondary (not generally comparable, comparative more secondary, superlative most secondary)
* Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
* Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
    the work of secondary hands
* (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
* (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
* (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
    secondary cleavage
* (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
* (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
    Antonym: idiopathic
    Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
    the secondary symptoms of syphilis
* Of less than primary importance.
    a secondary issue
** 1992, Deborah Bernstein, Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-state Israel, page 227:the problem of sexual equality became even more secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members.
* (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
* (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
* (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
    Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
* (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
** 2016 May 27, Wayne M. Matthis, Luciane Marinoni, “Revision of Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Americas south of the United States”, in Zootaxa, volume 4116, number 1, →DOI:With the exception of a secondary loss in Dimecoenia, larvae of Ephydrini have prominent, ventral prolegs that bear crochets.

#### Coordinate terms

* denary (10)
* duodenary (12)
* nonary (9)
* octonary (8)
* primary (1)
* quaternary (4)
* quinary (5)
* senary (6)
* septenary (7)
* tertiary (3)
* vigenary (20)

#### Derived terms

* circumsecondary
* intersecondary
* nonsecondary
* postsecondary
* presecondary
* Seconal
* secondarily
* secondariness
* secondary alcohol
* secondary amine
* secondary cell wall
* secondary circle
* secondary color, secondary colour
* secondary diagonal
* secondary dominant
* secondary drowning
* secondary education
* secondary emission
* secondary energy
* secondary explosive
* secondary fermentation
* secondary fire
* secondary hypothermia
* secondary immunodeficiency
* secondary industry
* secondary infection
* secondary intention
* secondary ion mass spectrometry
* secondary liability
* secondary market
* secondary phosphine
* secondary planet
* secondary radar
* secondary research
* secondary sanction
* secondary school
* secondary sector
* secondary sex characteristic
* secondary smoking
* secondary source
* secondary stress
* secondary structure
* secondary surveillance radar
* secondary valence
* secondary vaping
* secondary victimisation, secondary victimization
* secondary work
* secondary world
* semisecondary
* supersecondary

#### Translations
### Noun

secondary (plural secondaries)
* (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
* (aviation) A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
* (military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
* (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
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Old Escalus […] is thy secondary.
* (astronomy) A secondary circle.
* (astronomy) A satellite.
* (education) A secondary school.
    There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
* Short for secondary colour.
* Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

#### Translations
## Middle English
### Adjective

secondary
* Alternative form of secundarie

### Noun

secondary
* Alternative form of secundarie