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tertiary 音标拼音: [t'ɚʃɚi] [t'ɚʃi ,ɛri] a. 第三的,第三位的,第三世纪的
n. 第三重音,第三会员,第三纪 第三的,第三位的,第三世纪的第三重音,第三会员,第三纪 tertiary三次式 tertiary adj 1: coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position [ synonym: { third}, { 3rd}, { tertiary}] n 1: from 63 million to 2 million years ago [ synonym: { Tertiary}, { Tertiary period}] Tertiary \ Ter" ti* a* ry\, a. [ L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See { Tierce}.] 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. -- Trench. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Zool.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird' s wing; tertial; -- said of quills. [ 1913 Webster] { 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.) ( a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era. ( b) 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Tertiary \ Ter" ti* a* ry\, n.; pl. { Tertiaries}. 1. ( 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Zool.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of { Bird}. [ 1913 Webster] 40 Moby Thesaurus words for " tertiary": Maxwell triangle, Munsell scale, chromatic circle, chromatic spectrum, chromaticity diagram, color circle, color cycle, color index, color mixture curve, color solid, color spectrum, color system, color triangle, complementary color, covert, demitint, feather, feathers, full color, fundamental colors, hackle, half tint, halftone, hue cycle, mail, metamer, monochrome, plumage, primary, primary color, pure color, secondary, secondary color, solar spectrum, spectral color, spectrum, spectrum color, speculum, tertiary color, third
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