Definitions for Quaternary

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Quaternary quat·er·nar·y

Spelling: [kwot-er-ner-ee, kwuh-tur-nuh-ree]

IPA: /ˈkwɒt ərˌnɛr i, kwəˈtɜr nə ri/

Quaternary is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 287 anagrams from letters in Quaternary (aaenqrrtuy).

Definitions for Quaternary

noun

1. a group of four.
2. the number four.
3. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Quaternary Period or System.

adjective

1. consisting of four.
2. arranged in fours.
3. (initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the present period of earth history, forming the latter part of the Cenozoic Era, originating about 2 million years ago and including the Recent and Pleistocene Epochs.
4. Metallurgy. (of an alloy) having four principal constituents.

Origin of Quaternary

1400-50; late Middle English Latin quaternārius consisting of four, equivalent to quatern(ī) four at a time + -ārius -ary

Examples for Quaternary

In Europe it has appeared since the neolithic age, after the quaternary period.

The flora itself at the quaternary age was of extreme vigor.

Normal gray is black and white mixed, but quaternary colors are also called grays, or colors of the dull or neutral scale.

Lastly, only in the quaternary comes the genus Equus, or true horse.

“Quartenary” was amended to “quaternary” in the first paragraph.

They are referred to the dawn of the quaternary or Pleistocene period.

How does this affect the most characteristic of all quaternary forms, that of man?

Does pre-glacial mean Pliocene, or is it included in the quaternary?

Ternary, and quaternary, consist of three and four elements.

It may have been in the Tertiary, the quaternary, or not until the Recent period.