Definitions for secondary

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secondary sec·ond·ar·y

Spelling: [sek-uh n-der-ee]

IPA: /ˈsɛk ənˌdɛr i/

Secondary is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 751 anagrams from letters in secondary (acdenorsy).

Definitions for secondary

noun

1. a person or thing that is secondary.
2. a subordinate, assistant, deputy, or agent.
3. Electricity. a winding in a transformer or the like in which a current is induced by a primary winding.
4. Ornithology. a secondary feather.
5. Football. the defensive unit that lines up behind the linemen.
6. Linguistics. secondary accent.

adjective

1. next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
2. belonging or pertaining to a second order, division, stage, period, rank, grade, etc.
3. (in scholarly studies) pertaining to or being a derived or derivative account, an evaluation of original data, etc.; not primary or original, as in secondary source; secondary research.
4. of minor or lesser importance; subordinate; auxiliary.
5. of or relating to secondary schools.
6. Chemistry. involving or obtained by the replacement of two atoms or groups. noting or containing a carbon atom united to two other carbon atoms in a chain or ring molecule.
7. Electricity. noting or pertaining to the current induced by a primary winding or to the winding in which the current is induced in an induction coil, transformer, or the like.
8. Geology. noting or pertaining to a mineral produced from another mineral by decay, alteration, or the like.
9. Grammar. (of a derivative) having a root or other unanalyzable element that is itself a word or free form: . having reference to past time; noting or pertaining to a past tense: Compare primary (def 13).
10. Ornithology. pertaining to any of a set of flight feathers on the second segment of a bird's wing.
11. Linguistics. of, relating to, or characteristic of a secondary accent:

Origin of secondary

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Latin word secundārius. See second¹, -ary

Examples for secondary

Over the past three years, Michigan has had an average price close to $200 on the secondary market.

He fooled around a lot, and was asked to leave his secondary school.

The world's opinion ought to be but a secondary consideration.

What I am to my family, my country, myself, is all secondary.

The realities with which we are engaged in our daily lives are secondary realities.

Whether it was just, or honorable, or kind, is a secondary consideration.

It is especially the authorities of secondary schools who have raised opposition.

Jenkins had written entirely from secondary literature—no interviews or excavation of legal documents.

More importantly, Medicaid served as a secondary insurance to his primary insurance.

We know what she was, and it is of secondary importance where she went or what she did.