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Meaning of secondary

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  secondary
      adj 1: being of second rank or importance or value; not direct
             or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary
             crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue";
             "secondary streams" [ant: {primary}]
      2: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly
         corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
         [syn: {junior-grade}, {lower-ranking}, {lowly}, {petty(a)},
         {secondary}, {subaltern}]
      3: depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a
         secondary infection"
      4: not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world
         events"
      5: belonging to a lower class or rank
      n 1: the defensive football players who line up behind the
           linemen
      2: coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current
         through the primary coil [syn: {secondary coil}, {secondary
         winding}, {secondary}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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