tertiary
tertiary Lexical Profile
tertiary Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Third in order, rank, level, or importance.
"Once the primary and secondary goals were met, the team focused on tertiary objectives."
Relating to education at the college or university level, following primary and secondary schooling.
"The government increased funding for tertiary education to support university students."
Relating to the economic sector that provides services rather than extracting raw materials or manufacturing goods.
"Tourism, banking, and healthcare are major components of the tertiary sector."
• noun
A color produced by mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color, or by mixing two secondary colors.
"The artist blended warm tertiaries like amber and vermilion to paint the autumn leaves."
A lay member of the third order of a monastic or religious congregation who lives according to a Rule without taking full monastic vows.
"As a Franciscan tertiary, she dedicated her spare time to charity while maintaining her secular career."
One of the inner flight feathers attached to the humerus of a bird's wing.
"The ornithologist identified the gull species by the distinctive white tips on its tertiaries."
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tertiarius ('containing a third part, of the third rank'), derived from tertius ('third'), from the Proto-Indo-European root *trei- ('three').