- Further (education) - Level of education - Primary, secondary, ... - third in degree of order - Third in degree or order - Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as,
a tertiary use of a word. - Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been
subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a
tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
- Colorado ski resort - Fence crossing - Field access - Field gate - Set of steps in a fence - Steps over a fence - A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style.
See Style.
- Subordinate - Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place,
origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first
order or rate. - Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the
work of secondary hands. - 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. - Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by
alteertion 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. - Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. - Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as,
Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in
the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
- One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids
produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals
having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are
deuterozooids.
- That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is
a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing
characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to
the primary.
- The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific,
infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by
hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as
primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary,
Secondary, and Tertiary.