English-Italian translations for secondary

• secondaria
  A mio parere, si tratta di una questione secondaria. In my view, this issue is secondary.
  Qualsiasi altra considerazione è secondaria. Any other consideration is secondary.
  Spesso accade che a tali temi venga attribuita una priorità secondaria. Such issues are often given secondary priority.
• secondario
  Tutto il resto diventa secondario. Everything else becomes secondary.
  L’Unione europea ha solo un ruolo secondario al riguardo. The EU only has a secondary role in this.
  La sua analisi del diritto secondario è stata esemplare. Her examination of the secondary law was exemplary.

Definition of secondary

• Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc
• Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
• Developed by pressure or other causes
• Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird
• Of less than primary importance
• Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18
• Formed by mixing primary colors
• Representing a reversion to an ancestral state
• Any flight feather attached to the ulna of a bird
• The defensive backs
• One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy
• A secondary circle
• A secondary school
• Anything secondary or of lesser importance

Examples

• the work of secondary hands
• secondary cleavage
• Brights disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
• the secondary symptoms of syphilis
• a secondary issue
• Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
• the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
• There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.

Related words

• postsecondary
• secondary colour
• secondary obligation
• secondary sources
• secondary source
• secondary coil
• secondary market
• secondary energy
• secondary school