secondary

Definitions of secondary in various dictionaries:

noun - the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

noun - coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

adj - being of second rank or importance or value

adj - inferior in rank or status

adj - depending on or incidental to what is original or primary

adj - not of major importance

adj - belonging to a lower class or rank

Of the second rank; not primary.

Inferior.

Minor; lesser.

Derived from what is primary or original: a secondary source; a secondary infection.

Of, relating to, or being the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird’s wing.

Having an induced current that is generated by an inductively coupled primary.

Characterized or formed by replacement of two atoms or radicals within a molecule.

Produced from another mineral by decay or alteration.

Of or relating to a secondary school: secondary education.

Being a degree of health care intermediate between that offered in a physician’s office and that available at a research hospital, as the care typically offered at a clinic or community hospital.

Of, relating to, or being growth or tissue caused by activity of the cambium and resulting in wider branches and stems: secondary xylem.

One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity.

One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird’s wing.

A coil or circuit having an induced current.

A celestial body that revolves around another; a satellite.

The dimmer star of a binary star system.

The defensive backfield.