Synonyms for
secondary
Next in order to the first or primary
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All Definitions for Secondary

Below are all the dictionary definitions of secondary:

1Next in order to the first or primary
2Of second place in origin, rank, etc.
3Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
4Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
5Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
6Developed by pressure or other causes.
7Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
8Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
9Of less than primary importance.
10Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
11Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
12Formed by mixing primary colors.
13Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
14Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
15A 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.
16The 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.
17An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
18The defensive backs.
19An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
20One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place
21A delegate deputy.
22A secondary circle.
23A satellite.
24A secondary school.
25Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
26Ellipsis of secondary colour. [(British spelling) Any of three colours derived from mixing two primary colours.]

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