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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

... old and vexed a problem, would not have been written, had I not been fortunate enough to obtain many unpublished manuscript materials. Some of these at least clear up the secondary enigma of the sequel of the problem of 1600. Different readers will probably draw different conclusions from some of the other documents, but perhaps nobody will doubt that they throw strange new lights on ...

— James VI and the Gowrie Mystery • Andrew Lang

... my feelings. I now quite understand what you meant by saying that it was the Beautiful, the True, that could often move you to tears. Calm and deep, clear and yet incomprehensible, like nature, your work makes its influence felt; it stands there, and even the smallest secondary incident shows the beautiful equanimity from ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)

... syllables there may be a second, and even a third accent, the voice dwelling on every other syllable. In pe'-ri-od the dwelling on od is scarcely perceptible, but in pe'-ri-od'-ic it becomes the chief accent, and it receives this special force because ic is so weak, In ter'-ri-to-ry the secondary accent on to is slight because ri is nearly equal and it is easy to spread the stress ...

— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody

... consequence of our past actions. And this is the karmic evil arising out of sin committed in a former life. But, O Brahmana, I am always assiduous in eradicating the evil. The Deity takes away life, the executioner acts only as a secondary agent. And we, O good Brahmana, are only such agents in regard to our karma. Those animals that are slain by me and whose meat I sell, also acquire karma, because (with their meat), gods and guests and servants ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... witnesses; but the Commissioner ruled that the proceeding was a summary ex-parte one, and that the defendant had no right to any testimony. Of course we were forced into trial, and after allowing secondary proof where the highest was attainable, and permitting hearsay evidence and mere rumor, the Commissioner granted his certificate for the removal of the adjudged fugitive. We again brought the case before Judge Wallace, ...

— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian

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