tertiary
tertiary is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
- adjective. Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
- adjective. Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
- adjective. Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
- noun. A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
- noun. The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
- noun. One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
- noun. from 63 million to 2 million years ago
- adjective. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
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