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Secondary

adjective

Being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate. "A secondary source" , "A secondary issue" , "Secondary streams"

Inferior in rank or status. Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern. "A lowly corporal" , "Petty officialdom" , "A subordinate functionary"

Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary.

Not of major importance.

Belonging to a lower class or rank.

noun

(pl. secondaries)

The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen.

Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil. Synonyms: secondary coil, secondary winding.

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"Secondary" Quotes from Famous Books

... little satisfaction from his inquiry. Tom was so full of his main topic that the other events of that memorable evening in town occupied but a secondary place ...

— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed

... know. There were only two ship-keepers on board, and they would be no obstacle in the way of the ship's company to which the captain had alluded. But the leader of the enterprise had another object in view, though it was only secondary in its nature. He was afraid to overburden the mind of Corny, and ...

— Within The Enemy's Lines - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic

... covered with coarse serge, blankets, or other flocculent material—so that the heavy particles may be caught in the hairs, or is passed over vanners or concentrating machines. The resulting "concentrates" are washed off from time to time and reserved for secondary treatment. ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson

... world where such manifestations needed. As to the object of the manifestations considerable difference of opinion prevails. In the Gita, the great deity himself explains that that object is to rescue the good and destroy the wicked. Others hold that this is only a secondary object, the primary one being to gladden the hearts of the devout by affording them opportunities of worshipping him and applauding his acts, and to indulge in new joys ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown

... 109. Limitations on exclusive rights: Effect of transfer of particular copy or phonorecord 110. Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of certain performances and displays 111. Limitations on exclusive rights: Secondary transmissions 112. Limitations on exclusive rights: Ephemeral recordings 113. Scope of exclusive rights in pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works 114. Scope of exclusive rights in sound recordings 115. Scope of exclusive rights in nondramatic musical works: Compulsory license for making ...

— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

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