Dictionary Entry
secondary
secondary is a 9-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
- 2adjective
Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
- 3adjective
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
- 4adjective
Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
- 5adjective
Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- 6adjective
Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
- 7noun
One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
- 8noun
A secondary circle.
- 9noun
A satellite.
- 10noun
A secondary quill.
- 11noun
coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
- 12noun
the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
- 13adjective
belonging to a lower class or rank
- 14adjective
not of major importance
"played a secondary role in world events"
- 15adjective
being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
"the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"
"a secondary source"
- 16adjective
depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
"a secondary infection"
- 17adjective
inferior in rank or status
"the junior faculty"
"a lowly corporal"
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