Tertiary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of third rank or order; subsequent.

   “Beſides theſe primordial mountains, M. [P[eter] S[imon]] Pallas maintains, that there are others of a more recent origin. These he calls ſecondary and tertiary: […] the latter ariſe from the wrecks and contents of the ſea, raiſed and tranſported by volcanic eruptions and conſequent inundations.”

2. sıfat Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.

   “a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt”

3. sıfat Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
4. isim Any item considered to be of third order.

   “The primary rhizomes usually die during the growing season. The tertiaries and secondaries, however, live through the winter and become primary rhizomes the following year.”

5. isim A tertiary colour.

   “My principal objection is against the compound or derivative tints, given under the denominations of secondaries and tertiaries.”

6. isim Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).

   “There is, within our area, a great gap between the Eocene group and the later tertiaries, indicated by the difference of their organic contents. Between the existing fauna of our seas and the oldest stage of the later tertiaries, there is a distinct and extensive relationship of identity of species.”

7. isim A tertiary feather; a tertial.

   “Coincident with the dropping out of the fifth or sixth primary is the molt of the outermost tertiary, followed by the adjoining tertiary, and then the third tertiary, which in most passerine birds is the last or innermost.”

8. isim A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.
9. isim A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.

   “Immediately after her arrival in Ferrara, while she was still striving to secure the foundation of her exemplary reformed community of Dominican tertiaries, [Lucia] Brocadelli also renewed her attempts to enhance [Girolamo] Savonarola's saintly reputation.”

10. sıfat Of or pertaining to the first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.
11. özel isim The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

    “[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]”