secondary

Meanings

Plural: secondaries

Noun

• 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
• Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
• A 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.
• The 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.
• An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
• The defensive backs.
• An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
• One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
• A secondary circle.
• A satellite.
• A secondary school.
• Ellipsis of secondary colour.
• Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

Adjective

• being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
  • "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"
  • "a secondary source"
  • "a secondary issue"
  • "secondary streams"

Adjective Satellite

• inferior in rank or status
• depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
  • "a secondary infection"
• not of major importance
  • "played a secondary role in world events"
• belonging to a lower class or rank

Adj

• Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
• Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
• Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
• Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
• Developed by pressure or other causes.
• Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
• Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
• Of less than primary importance.
• Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
• Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
• Formed by mixing primary colors.
• Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.

Synonyms

junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary coil, secondary winding, subaltern

Antonyms

idiopathic, primary

Anagrams of secondary