SECONDARY

adj. Se2k'u3nd-a-ri". Lat., secnndarius (from secund us, second). Fr.. second a ire, consecufif (1st def.). Ger., sekunddr. 1. Second or subordinate in order of time, development, interdependence, importance, etc.; of an electrical current, induced, [a, 35; a, 48.] 2. Of organic compounds in chemistry, having a substituted radicle in a hydrocarbon attached to a carbon atom which itself is connected with two other carbon atoms. The term is also applied to amines, amides, phosphines, stibines, and arsines in which two of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia, phos_phoreted hydrogen, etc., are replaced by radicles. [B.] S. tertiary. Partly secondary and partly tertiary (said of those diatomic alcohols [glycols] in which one molecule of substituted hydroxyl is attached to a carbon atom which is itself in direct combination with two other E, he; E", ell; G, go; I, die; Ia, in; N, in; N, tank; [s. 466]