Usually means: Not primary, but still important.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word secondary:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. secondary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Secondary, secondary, the Secondary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. secondary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. secondary, the secondary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. secondary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Secondary, secondary: Wordnik
  7. secondary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. secondary: Wiktionary
  9. secondary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. secondary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. secondary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. secondary: Dictionary.com
  13. secondary (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. secondary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Secondary (chemistry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. secondary: Rhymezone
  17. secondary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. secondary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. secondary: Free Dictionary
  20. secondary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. secondary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Secondary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Secondary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. secondary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. secondary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. secondary: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. secondary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. secondary: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. secondary: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
adjective:  Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
adjective:  (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
adjective:  (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
adjective:  (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
adjective:  (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
adjective:  (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
adjective:  Of less than primary importance.
adjective:  (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
adjective:  (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
adjective:  (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
adjective:  (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
noun:  (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
noun:  (aviation) 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.
noun:  (military) 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.
noun:  (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
noun:  (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
noun:  (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
noun:  One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
noun:  (astronomy) A secondary circle.
noun:  (astronomy) A satellite.
noun:  (education) A secondary school.
noun:  Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
noun:  Short for secondary colour. [(British spelling) Any of three colours derived from mixing two primary colours]

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