different between nugatory vs secondary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?g?t?rius

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nju???t??i/

Adjective

nugatory (comparative more nugatory, superlative most nugatory)

1. Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
   • 1872, Benjamin Disraeli, Suez Canal Speech

     I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory.

2. Ineffective, invalid or futile.
   • 1792, George Washington, Fourth State of the Union Address

     I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier and for restraining the commission of outrages upon the Indians, without which all pacific plans must prove nugatory.
3. (law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
   • 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland (17 U.S. 316)

     The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory.

4. (computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secund?rius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?k?nd(?)??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k?n?d??i/

Adjective

secondary (not generally comparable, comparative more secondary, superlative most secondary)

1. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
2. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body

3. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
4. (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
5. (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.

6. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
7. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.

   Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.

   the secondary symptoms of syphilis

8. Of less than primary importance.
9. (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
10. (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
11. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.

    Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.

12. (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.

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Noun

secondary (plural secondaries)

1. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
2. (aviation) A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
3. (military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary; in a few extremely large weapons, the secondary may itself implode a fusion tertiary.
4. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
5. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
6. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
7. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.

   the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
8. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
9. (astronomy) A satellite.
10. (education) A secondary school.

    There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.

11. Anything secondary or of lesser importance.

Translations

Middle English

Adjective

secondary

1. Alternative form of secundarie

Noun

secondary

1. Alternative form of secundarie