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secondary

/ˈsɛkənˌdɛɹi/ sustantivo C2
  1. Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
  2. A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
  3. The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
  4. An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
  5. The defensive backs.
  6. An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
  7. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy. · the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
  8. A secondary circle.

Plural secondaries

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To the committee the adventure was so extraordinary and curious, that the interest they had felt for the count’s safety became now quite a secondary matter.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 874 · C1
Danglars has only been a secondary agent in this sad affair, and it is of M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 888 · C1

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