secondaries
- 1Plural of secondary.
The artist blended the primaries on her palette to mix the secondaries she needed.
Opposing offenses struggled all season against one of the league's fastest secondaries.
Note
A regular plural, with the y turning to -ies, that seldom travels alone: in most fields it answers to primaries. A bird's secondaries are the flight feathers of the forearm. A transformer's secondaries are coils powered by a primary. Radar secondaries are transponder replies, set against simple primary returns. In Canadian usage the singular already names the defensive backs as a unit, so secondaries means several teams' backfields.
secondaries is a form of secondary
secondary, noun: A school providing education for students roughly between 11 and 18 years of age. Full entry
- Forms
- secondarysecondaries plural
- Spelling
- secondary → secondaries: change y to i, add -es
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