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Meaning of secondary in English

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Examples of secondary

secondary
These solutions provide qualitative insight for the process of secondary oil recovery if the polymer concentration of liquid injected into the reservoir varies with time.
Finally, in red rice, both primary dormancy breaking and secondary dormancy inducibility follow decay kinetics during afterripening.
The observed secondary instabilities often seem to be purely two-dimensional.
Secondary aims were to study the relationship between psychological, endocrine and immune variables and baseline tumour characteristics.
Regular secondary structure elements are represented in black.
This is true for secondary structures that get repaired and replaced, but most importantly for the farmhouse itself.
Persons with secondary, short secondary, and pre-secondary education achievement reported respectively 2.4%, 4.5%, and 6.0% lower health state scores.
However, there is also an interesting example where alteration of the secondary-structure connectivity is reported not to affect the folding nucleus.
A secondary problem is that mapping excludes random variables, which by definition are not interface parameters.
The analysis in this paper has been limited to cases where the secondary mode perturbation remains small.
His decision to exclude secondary stresses (1999: 14), but to include two 'equal' stresses, is very problematic.
The reserve includes 640 ha of lowland tropical rain forest surrounded by a mosaic of disturbed habitats and secondary forest.
We documented the level of ant herbivory in treefall gaps and the surrounding forest understorey in old-growth and secondary forests.
I suspect that such factors as "inter-reflections between surfaces," though certainly demonstrable and interesting, are of secondary importance even in most natural environments.
The latter case also suffers secondary bifurcation for some values of the relevant parameters of the problem.
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Translations of secondary

in Chinese (Traditional)
次要的, 後來的, 繼發的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
次要的, 后来的, 继发的…
in Spanish
secundario, de secundaria, secundario/ia [masculine-feminine…
in Portuguese
secundário, secundário/-ia, subsequente…
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माध्यमिक…
中等教育の(英国では11歳から18歳が受ける), あまり重要でない, 二の次…
orta öğretim, ikinci derecede, ikinci derecede olan…
secondaire, (école) secondaire…
secundari…
middelbaar, secundair, middelbare school…
ஏறக்குறைய 11 முதல் 18 வயதுக்குட்பட்ட குழந்தைகளின் கல்வி தொடர்பானது…
माध्यमिक, 11 से 18 वर्ष के बच्चों की शिक्षा से संबंधित…
લગભગ ૧૧ થી ૧૮ વર્ષ વચ્ચેની ઉમરના બાળકોનાં શિક્ષણને સંબંધિત…
videregående, sekundær, folkeskolens øverste trin…
sekundär, underordnad, mellan- och högstadieskola…
sekunder, tidak berapa penting, menengah…
höher, zweitrangig, höhere Schule…
underordnet, mindre viktig, sekundær…
ثانوی (تعلیم کے حوالے سے)…
середній, вторинний, другорядний…
средний (о школе), второстепенный…
మాధ్యమిక…
ثانَوي, ثانَوي الأهَميّة…
মাধ্যমিক…
druhého stupně, sekundární, druhořadý…
menengah, sekunder, sekolah menengah…
ทุติยภูมิ, มาทีหลัง, สำคัญน้อยกว่า…
trung học, thứ yếu, trường trung học…
ponadpodstawowy, drugorzędny, drugi…
중등 교육의, 이차적인…
secondario, (scuola di secondo grado)…
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