secondary S₁E₁C₃O₁N₁D₂A₁R₁Y₄

Adjective 4 meanings

1. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.

2. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.

   “the work of secondary hands”

3. Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.

4. Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.

Noun 4 meanings

1. Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.

Similar and opposite words

• MILITARY₁₃
• SECRETARY₁₄
• NECESSARY₁₄
• PRIMARY₁₄
• LIBRARY₁₂
• MARY₉
• ANNIVERSARY₁₇
• CONTEMPORARY₂₁
• TEMPORARY₁₆
• ORDINARY₁₂
• SCARY₁₀
• SUMMARY₁₄