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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The word "tertiary" in example sentences

It would be better for government to focus on its core competency (safety regulation) and let the other fall by the wayside, but at least separating the primary from the tertiary is a good first step. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"That's what they call tertiary recovery," Clark said. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Out of the 50 direct cases, 6 deaths were related to abortion as follows: 1 septic abortion, 2 ectopic pregnancies, and 3 indirect deaths after having completed the induced abortion. 5 out of these 6 cases were handled in tertiary care centers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Academic Capacity - measured by the graduates 'performance in tertiary education. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The lower tertiary is recognized as a huge resource with the potential for long life projects of up to 30 to 40 years," said Chevron Vice Chairman George Kirkland in prepared remarks. ❋ Isabel Ordonez (2010)

It seems like adding figure-tertiary is just making up semantics to satisfy presentational concerns. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Figure 2 shows payments in 2007 by one large private insurer for appendectomies (then code DRG 107) and coronary bypass grafts with cardiac catheterization (code CABG, then DRG 107) in California at what are known as "tertiary hospitals" - those with the ability to support medical specialists in medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, their subspecialties and ancillary services. ❋ By UWE E. REINHARDT (2011)

This can be best achieved through the creation of CEDAW clubs in tertiary institutions with the major aims of building a culture of Women’s Human Rights activism and advocacy among Nigerian Youths and also to build gender discrimination-free culture on campus and among Nigerian youths. in conclusion, Youth involvement in promoting and development of Women’s Human Rights in achieving gender equality is very vital and essential. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We, hope for less intervention from government in tertiary education, less oppression on Chinese schools in Malaysia … … …. [ ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)

It would be better for government to focus on its core competency safety regulation and let the other fall by the wayside, but at least separating the primary from the tertiary is a good first step. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being a tertiary has been a great mercy to me, for it has given a discipline and compass to my spiritual life. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

The curve of incremental recovery against energy cost is steeply exponential for so-called tertiary recovery techniques, and to achieve an average cumulative recovery ratio of even 40 percent from American reservoirs will require much higher prices for oil than can now be foreseen [31]. ❋ Earl Cook (2007)

Thus, one might argue that what is required is an account of why knowledge is more valuable than that which falls short of knowledge not merely as a matter of degree but of kind, what Pritchard (2007a: §2) calls the tertiary value problem. ❋ Pritchard, Duncan (2007)

In so-called tertiary syphilis, virtually any tissue in the body can be damaged, including the cardiovascular and nervous systems. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"More than 11000 South Africans will benefit from the unique education initiative known as tertiary education linkages project," he said in a statement. ❋ Unknown (1998)

However, when discharged phosphorus and nitrogen compounds reach levels in the receiving waters that do cause eutrophication, further treatment, the so-called tertiary treatment, which "unfixes" the bound nitrogen in the waste (at great expense) by transforming it through denitrification to nitrogen gas, becomes necessary. ❋ Unknown (1979)

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