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Meanings of secondaries in English

Bird feather for flight.

Usage of secondaries in English
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The secondaries, from the residential areas, are three or four, I guess.
IT
2
Can't you give me just a little more voltage on those secondaries?
Spacehounds of IPC
3
The two secondaries I connect in series, the primaries preferably in multiple arc.
The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
4
CONCLUSION: Despite the slow development of these secondaries and …
Pubmed
5
About taking off without having the secondaries fixed, I mean.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
6
The hover blaster screamed their high-pitched screech, and the secondaries fired from the tail.
Genellan: planetfall
7
She discovered three weeks ago she has cancer with secondaries.
The Irish Times
8
The decades since have been spent in Oxford, working in a series of state secondaries.
The Guardian
9
The Priority One alert had gone out to everyone: primary squads, secondaries and reserves alike.
Stars rain down
10
Some short primary processes shorn of projecting and connecting secondaries coalesced to form mitochondria-filled lobules.
Pubmed
11
When people talk about secondaries, what do they mean?
The Irish Times
12
The coachman and gardener now naturally subsided into secondaries.
Desperate Remedies
13
Replication errors were found in four primary tumours and in three of the corresponding secondaries.
Pubmed
14
There are four secondaries that are close to Michaela.
The Guardian
15
It has a whole sackful of complicating secondaries too.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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His power tap, fortunately, was feeding him enough power to drive the secondaries at full pull.
Earth strike: star carrier: book one
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