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The Quaternary Period is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "consisting of four parts," from Latin quaternarius "of four each, containing four," from quaterni "four each, by fours," from quater "four times," related to quattuor "four" (see four ). Also as a noun, "the number four" (mid-15c.), from Latin ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quaternary \Qua*ter"na*ry\, a. [L. quaternarius consisting of four each, containing four, fr. quaterni four each, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quaternaire. See Four .] Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four; "quaternate leaves"; "a quaternary compound" [syn: quaternate ] coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary period of geologic ...
Usage examples of quaternary.
This learned man, who holds such a high place in the scientific world, holds that the soil of Moulin-Quignon does not belong to the diluvium but to a much less ancient stratum, and, in accordance with Cuvier in this respect, he would by no means admit that the human species was contemporary with the animals of the Quaternary epoch.
The existence of men in the Quaternary period became, therefore, more positive every day.
I may say face to face with, a specimen of the human race actually belonging to the Quaternary period!
I have the honor on this auspicious occasion to present to you a man of the Quaternary period of our globe.
I am well acquainted with all these matters, and know, also, that Cuvier and Blumenbach fully recognized in these bones the undeniable remains of mammoths of the Quaternary period.
I saw the antehistorical times revivified, when the Tertiary and Quaternary periods passed before me, was now realized!
Ternary and rejects and removes that somber and superfluous part of the quaternary, the source of obscure shadows.
In the Houses of the Spring Quaternary they had fixed Mercury, and then combined him with old King Saturn, lead.
In the fourth House, first of the Summer Quaternary, he had been sweated, and labor induced.
As an intelligence of the quaternary class, you cannot possibly make an interruption of sufficient importance to interfere with a statement emanating from an intelligence of my class.
During the Quaternary, these down-warping areas were folded and uplifted by neotectonic movements of the limestone plates.
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.
Primary and secondary fell out of use altogether, while quaternary was discarded by some but kept by others.
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.
I let the mind roam away back over the vast geologic spaces, and sometimes fancy I see a dim image of him stalking across the terrace epoch of the quaternary period.