secondary

1. 1.

   the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

   Broaderformation

   Part offootball team
2. 2.

   coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

   Synonymssecondary coilsecondary winding

   Broadercoil

   Part oftransformer

Other forms of secondary

plural

secondaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about secondary

What does secondary mean?

secondary means "being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secondary?

secondary has 4 syllables: sec-on-dar-y. The stress falls on "sec". In IPA it is /ˈsɛkənˌdɛɹi/.

What is another word for secondary?

Close synonyms include junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of secondary?

The recorded antonyms are primary.

Is secondary a common word?

secondary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with secondary?

4 words rhyme with secondary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.