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sec·ond·ar·y  (skn-dr)
adj.
1.
a. Of the second rank; not primary.
b. Inferior.
c. Minor; lesser.
2. Derived from what is primary or original: a secondary source; a secondary infection.
3. Of, relating to, or being the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.
4. Electricity Having an induced current that is generated by an inductively coupled primary. Used of a circuit or coil.
5. Chemistry Characterized or formed by replacement of two atoms or radicals within a molecule. Used of a compound.
6. Geology Produced from another mineral by decay or alteration.
7. Of or relating to a secondary school: secondary education.
8. Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.
9. Being a degree of health care intermediate between that offered in a physician's office and that available at a research hospital, as the care typically offered at a clinic or community hospital.
10. Botany Of, relating to, or derived from a lateral meristem, especially a cambium.
n. pl. sec·ond·ar·ies
1. One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity.
2. One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.
3. Electricity A coil or circuit having an induced current.
4.
a. Astronomy A celestial body that revolves around another; a satellite.
b. The dimmer star of a binary star system.
5. A secondary color.
6. Football The defensive backfield.

second·ari·ly (-dâr-l) adv.
second·ari·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.secondarily - of secondary import; "secondarily affected"
in the first place, primarily - of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"
Translations
secondarily [ˈsɛkəndərɪli] advsecondairement
secondarily
advin zweiter Linie


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My reading for reading's sake, as I had hitherto done it, was at an end, and I read primarily for the sake of writing about the book in hand, and secondarily for the pleasure it might give me.
He was so far from conceiving of love for woman apart from marriage that he positively pictured to himself first the family, and only secondarily the woman who would give him a family.
Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly--the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.
 
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