Definizione monolingua

secondary

secondary (plural secondaries)

1. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.
2. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
3. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
4. (American football), (Canadian football) The defensive backs.

secondary (comparative more secondary, superlative most secondary)

1. Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
3. Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary.
4. (geology) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
5. (zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
6. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Brights disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
7. Of less than primary importance.
   • 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.

8. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.

   Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.

Definizione dizionario secondary

accessorio

accidentale

secondario

subordinato

Altri significati:

Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

(geology) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

(medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.

(American football), (Canadian football) The defensive backs.

Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary.

Of less than primary importance.

(zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

succeeding first

(of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.

Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

(finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.

Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.