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Tertiary

Tertiary may refer to:Tertiary period, an obsolete geologic period spanning from 66 to 2.6 million years ago Tertiary (chemistry), a term describing bonding patterns in organic chemistry Tertiary care, specialized consultative healthcare Tertiary color, a color made up by mixing one primary color with one secondary color, in a given color space Tertiary consumer, in ecology Tertiary education, educational levels following the completion of secondary education such as university or trade school Tertiary feathers or tertials, feathers attached to humerus or inner portion of the wings of birds Tertiary sector of the economy, or the service sector Tertiary source, in research Tertiary stress, a proposed level of stress in phonetics In biochemistry, the tertiary structure of a protein is its overall shape, also known as its fold Tertiary, a member of a third order religious group

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DEFINITIONS
  • nounAny item considered to be of third order.
  • nounA tertiary colour.
  • adjectiveOf third rank or order; subsequent.
  • adjectivePossessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
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Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins
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ordinalthird3rdtertiary period