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"Tertiary" Definition

noun

A tertiary feather.
Roman Catholic Church A member of a religious Third Order.
The Tertiary Period or its system of deposits.
A member of a monastic especially of lay people.
The Tertiary period or system of rocks.

adjective

Chemistry Of or relating to organic compounds in which a group, such as an alcohol or amine, is bound to three nonelementary radicals.
Chemistry Of or relating to salts of acids containing three replaceable hydrogen atoms.
Of or belonging to the geologic time, system of rocks, or sedimentary deposits of the first period of the Cenozoic Era, characterized by the appearance of modern flora and of apes and other large mammals. See Table at geologic time.
Third in place, order, degree, or rank.
Of third rank, importance, or value.

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