Tertiary
Word | TERTIARY |
Character | 8 |
Hyphenation | ter ti a ry |
Pronunciations | N/A |
Definitions and meanings of "Tertiary"
What do we mean by tertiary?
Third in place, order, degree, or rank. adjective
Of, relating to, or designating the short flight feathers nearest the body on the rear edge of a bird's wing. adjective
Of, relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to three other carbon atoms in a molecule. adjective
Of or relating to the replacement of three of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which three valences of the functional group are taken by carbon atoms. adjective
Of or relating to salts of acids containing three replaceable hydrogen atoms. adjective
Of, relating to, or being the period of geologic time from about 65 to about 1.8 million years ago, the older of the two periods of the Cenozoic Era. The Tertiary Period is characterized by the appearance of modern flora, insects, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, and by the dominance of mammals as vertebrate life forms on land. adjective
A tertiary feather. noun
The Tertiary Period. noun
A member of a religious Third Order. noun
Of the third order, rank, or formation; third.
In geology, of, pertaining to, or occurring in the Tertiary. See II. .
In ornithology, same as tertial: distinguished from secondary and from primary. See cuts under bird and covert, n., 6.
Belonging or pertaining To the Tertiaries. See II. .
One who or that which is tertiary, or third in order or succession. noun
A color, as russet, citrine, or olive, produced by the mixture of two secondary colors. Tertiaries are grays, and are either red-gray, blue-gray, or yellow-gray when these primaries are in excess, or violet-gray, orange-gray, or green-gray when these secondaries are in excess. noun
Same as tertial. noun
Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third. adjective
Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. adjective
Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary. adjective
Any item considered to be of third order.
A tertiary colour.
Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
A tertiary feather; a tertial.
A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
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