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Definition of Tertiary

Tertiary
Tertiary Ter"ti*a*ry, n.; pl. Tertiaries. 1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. --Addis & Arnold. 2. (Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation. 3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Tertiary
Tertiary Ter"ti*a*ry, a. [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce.] 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. --Trench. 2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.

Meaning of Tertiary from wikipedia

- Tertiary (/ˈtɜːr.ʃə.ri, ˈtɜːr.ʃiˌɛr.i/ TUR-shə-ree, TUR-shee-err-ee) is a widely used, but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million...
- Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or postsecondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school...
- economists now attribute it to a fourth sector, the quaternary sector. The tertiary sector of industry involves the provision of services to other businesses...
- A tertiary color or intermediate color is a color made by mixing full saturation of one primary color with half saturation of another primary color and...
- subject of this article include primary (RCH2OH), secondary (R2CHOH), and tertiary (R3COH) alcohols. The suffix -ol appears in the IUPAC chemical name of...
- Tertiary (from Latin tertiarius) is an adjective meaning "third" or "third hand". It may refer to: The Tertiary period of the geologic time scale. In...
- while an example of an aromatic amine would be diphenylamine. Tertiary (3°) amines—In tertiary amines, nitrogen has three organic substituents. Examples include...
- -⁠lee-oh-; also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from...
- /ˈniː.əˌdʒiːn, ˈniː.oʊ-/ NEE-ə-jeen, NEE-oh-) (informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years...
- Protein tertiary structure is the three dimensional shape of a protein. The tertiary structure will have a single polypeptide chain "backbone" with one...
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