Dictionary Entry
quaternary
quaternary is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 23 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
- 2adjective
Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
- 3noun
The number four.
- 4noun
The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
- 5noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- 6noun
last 2 million years
- 7adjective
coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
"the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present"
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- 8adjective
consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four
"quaternate leaves"
"a quaternary compound"
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