Secondary

Secondary is an adjective meaning "second" or "second hand". It may refer to:

  • The group of (usually at least four) defensive backs in American football and Canadian football
  • An obsolete name for the Mesozoic in geosciences
  • The secondary winding, or the electrical or electronic circuit connected to the secondary winding in a transformer
  • Secondary color
  • Secondary consumers in ecology Trophic dynamics
  • Secondary dominant in music
  • Secondary education
    • Secondary school - The type of school at the secondary level of education
  • Secondary market, an aftermarket where financial assets are traded
  • Secondary market offering
  • Secondary mirror, second mirror element/focusing surface in a reflecting telescope
  • Secondary neoplasm
  • Secondaries, the second-largest group of remiges (wing feathers), which attach to the inner lower arm
  • Private equity secondary, investment in an existing private equity fund or other alternative asset

Famous quotes containing the word secondary:

    Cloud-clown, blue painter, sun as horn,
    Hill-scholar, man that never is,
    The bad-bespoken lacker,
    Ancestor of Narcissus, prince
    Of the secondary men. There are no rocks
    And stones, only this imager.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
    Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)