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tertiary
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tertiary \Ter"ti*a*ry\, a. [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce .] Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. --Trench. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third ...
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Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.58 million years ago, a time span that lies between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary . The Tertiary is no longer recognized as a formal unit by the International ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "of the third order, rank, degree, etc.," from Latin tertiarius "of or pertaining to a third," from tertius "third, a third," from root of tres "three" (see three ). The geological sense (with capital T- ) of "era after the Mesozoic" (which formerly ...
Usage examples of tertiary.
The tertiary level becomes theatrical because the satiric performance by a character echoes the theatrical performance of the satirist, calling attention to the performative nature of the play itself.
He has overlapped as fully as seems possible the tertiary, secondary, and primary performative levels of theatricality, social roles, and discourse, and amid the resulting confusion he has insisted that we make the distinctions necessary to judgment.
IV ports, administering additional doses of vitamins E and C, tirilazad mesylate, and phenyl tertiary butyl nitrone.
During the Tertiary period members of the genera now known under the names of Lenzites, Polyporus, and Hydnum were all in existence.
Traces of the quadrumane, or monkey, have been found in the older tertiaries of France, India, and England.
Ribeiro immediately began his own investigations, and in many localities found flakes of worked flint and quartzite in Tertiary beds.
In 1871, Ribeiro presented to the Portuguese Academy of Science at Lisbon a collection of flint and quartzite implements, including some gathered from the Tertiary formations of the Tagus valley.
I saw the antehistorical times revivified, when the Tertiary and Quaternary periods passed before me, was now realized!
Tertiary and the Quaternary period, but that during this succession of ages its ancestors were not confined to some given, limited area of the globe.
In some books, too, you will find the tertiary and quaternary taken out and replaced by periods of different lengths called the Palaeogene and Neogene.
The Sarsen Stones are the remains of a cap of Tertiary Sandstone which once covered the plain.
At the moment we have a force of ninety tertiary forms in two grades, light cataphracti, and small pups.
And, as if to make the case as striking as possible, this sessile cirripede was a Chthamalus, a very common, large, and ubiquitous genus, of which not one specimen has as yet been found even in any tertiary stratum.
Would her array be able to receive a transmission from the FTL telemetry downlinks aboard the tertiary array?
Intellectual tertiaries are present, the secondaries and firsts are present too.