Word Meanings - SECONDARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.;

Additional info about word: SECONDARY

Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. Wheresoever there is normal right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange. Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon. 2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SECONDARY)

• Lateral
• Indirect
• oblique
• secondary
• resultant
• collateral
• deviative
• additive
• parallel
• adjunctive
• incidental

Related words: (words related to SECONDARY)

• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• ADJUNCTIVELY
  In an adjunctive manner.
• ADJUNCTIVE
  Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
• PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
  Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• PARALLEL SULCUS
  A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• PARALLELIZE
  To render parallel.
• PARALLELABLE
  Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. Bp. Hall.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• PARALLELISTIC
  Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.
• PARALLEL STANDARDS
  Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• OBLIQUE-ANGLED
  Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
• PARALLELLY
  In a parallel manner; with parallelism. Dr. H. More.
• PARALLELOGRAM
  A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• ANTIPARALLEL
  Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.
• IMPARALLELED
  Unparalleled.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,