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How to pronounce secondary in English?

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Synonyms secondary coil, secondary winding
Type of coil
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Synonyms junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern
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the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher.
a secondary source.
a secondary issue.
secondary streams.
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a secondary infection.
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played a secondary role in world events.
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Type of formation

Examples of secondary

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Now, the only way to get a ticket to the home opener is on the secondary market.
From the sacbee.com
On April 6, junior high and high school students will meet for secondary chapel.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Beckett is both stretched out and healthy, for sure, so the stats are secondary.
From the bostonherald.com
If he is, then there's not a secondary out there that's going to look very good.
From the freep.com
Too many big plays were given up because the Lions lack talent in the secondary.
From the freep.com
Adverse mold publicity could scare investors away during the secondary offering.
From the businessweek.com
Who would have guessed it would become a secondary story by the end of the week?
From the kentucky.com
A secondary breakdown resulted in a 59-yard catch in the Week 2 loss to Chicago.
From the chron.com
Which is why, Best reckons, good dramas have the football action as a secondary.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • 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"
  • The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
  • Junior-grade: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
  • Secondary coil: coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
  • Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"
  • Not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events"
  • Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary; Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird; An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation; , (Canadian football) The defensive backs; Succeeding next in order to the first; of ...
  • (secondaries) flight feathers attached to the forearm (ulna), closer to the bird's body than the primary feathers
  • (Secondaries) The shorter flight feathers along the inner part of the edge of the wing. See topography.