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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 degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
(Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
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(Zo["o]l.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills. Tertiary age. (Geol.) See under Age, 8. Tertiary color, a color produced by the mixture of two secondaries. ``The so-called tertiary colors are citrine, russet, and olive.'' --Fairholt. Tertiary period. (Geol.)
The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era.
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The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology.
Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs.
Tertiary \Ter"ti*a*ry\, n.; pl. Tertiaries.
(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.(Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
(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.
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 was called the Secondary) is attested from 1794, after Italian terziari, used in this sense 1760 by Italian geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of third rank or order; subsequent. 2 (context chemistry English) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals. 3 (context zoology of quills English) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial. n. 1 A tertiary feather. 2 A member of a Roman Catholic third order - the Franciscans, Dominicans and Carmelites among others.
WordNet
adj. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position [syn: third, 3rd]
n. from 63 million to 2 million years ago [syn: Tertiary period]
Wikipedia
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 Commission on Stratigraphy, but the word is still widely used. The traditional span of the Tertiary has been divided between the Paleogene and Neogene Periods and extends to the first stage of the Pleistocene Epoch, the Gelasian age.
The period began with the demise of the non- avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, and extended to the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation at the end of the Pliocene Epoch.
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 economics the tertiary sector (of industry) is the service sector or the service industry (as opposed to the primary -agricultural and natural resources- and secondary, manufacturing)
- Tertiaries, members of a Third order (lay folk connected with a Mendicant Order).
- A tertiary consumer in an ecological sense.
- A Tertiary functional group (or usually ion) attached to carbon atom connected to three other carbon atoms in organic chemistry
- A tertiary alcohol (tert), which has three carbon atoms connected to the carbon atom that bears the hydroxyl group.
- Tertiaries, the smallest group of remiges (wing feathers), which attach to the wings of birds. Usually, they are not flight feathers, but resemble body plumage.
- In biochemistry, the tertiary structure of a protein is its overall shape, also known as its fold
- Tertiary or higher education
- Tertiary care, specialized consultative healthcare.
- Ternary operation, in computer science a ternary operator (sometimes incorrectly referred to as a tertiary operator), an operator that takes three arguments
- Tertiary color, a color made up by mixing one primary color with one secondary color, in a given color space
- Tertiary stress, a proposed degree of stress in linguistics
- A member of a third order religious group
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.