Intermediate vs. Secondary — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Intermediate and Secondary
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Intermediate
Coming between two things in time, place, character, etc.
A cooled liquid intermediate between liquid and solid
An intermediate stage of development
Secondary
Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary
Concerns that are secondary.
Intermediate
An intermediate thing.
Secondary
Following what is first in time or sequence
Secondary fermentation.
Intermediate
Act as intermediary; mediate
Groups which intermediated between the individual and the state
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Secondary
Of or relating to secondary schools.
Intermediate
Lying or occurring between two extremes or in a middle position or state
An aircraft having an intermediate range.
An intermediate school.
Secondary
Derived from what is primary or original
Literary criticism viewed as secondary to literature itself.
Intermediate
One that is in a middle position or state.
Secondary
Not immediate or direct
A secondary source of information.
Intermediate
An intermediary.
Secondary
Of, relating to, or being the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.
Intermediate
(Chemistry) A substance formed as a necessary stage in the manufacture of a desired end product.
Secondary
(Electricity) Having an induced current that is generated by an inductively coupled primary. Used of a circuit or coil.
Intermediate
An automobile that is smaller than a full-sized model but larger than a compact.
Secondary
Relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to two other carbon atoms in a molecule.
Intermediate
To act as an intermediary; mediate.
Secondary
Relating to the replacement of two of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which two valences of the functional group are taken by carbon atoms.
Intermediate
To intervene.
Secondary
(Geology) Produced from another mineral by decay or alteration.
Intermediate
Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.
Secondary
Of or relating to a secondary color or colors.
Intermediate
Anything in an intermediate position.
Secondary
Being a degree of health care intermediate between primary care and tertiary care, as that typically offered at a community hospital.
Intermediate
An intermediary.
Secondary
(Botany) Of, relating to, or derived from a lateral meristem, especially a cambium.
Intermediate
(chemistry) Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
Secondary
One that acts in an auxiliary, subordinate, or inferior capacity.
Intermediate
(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
Secondary
One of the shorter flight feathers projecting along the inner edge of a bird's wing.
Intermediate
(transitive) To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Secondary
(Electricity) A coil or circuit having an induced current.
Intermediate
Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.
Secondary
(Astronomy) A celestial body that orbits another; a satellite.
Intermediate
Of or pertaining to an intermediate school; as, intermediate education.
Secondary
The dimmer star of a binary star.
Intermediate
To come between; to intervene; to interpose.
Secondary
A secondary color.
Intermediate
A person who intermediates between others, especially in negotiations; an intermediary; a mediator.
Secondary
(Football) The defensive backfield.
Intermediate
Something that is intermediate.
Secondary
Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
Intermediate
A compound which is produced in the course of a chemical synthesis, which is not itself the final product, but is used in further reactions which produce the final product; also called synthetic intermediate, intermediate compound or intermediate product; - contrasted to starting material and end product or final product. There may be many different intermediates between the starting material and end product in the course of a complex synthesis; as, many industrial chemicals are produced primarily to be used as intermediates in other syntheses.
Secondary
Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
The work of secondary hands
Intermediate
A substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained
Secondary
(organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
Intermediate
Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
He interceded in the family dispute
He mediated a settlement
Secondary
(geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
Intermediate
Lying between two extremes in time or space or degree;
Going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands
Intermediate stages in a process
Intermediate stops on the route
An intermediate level
The last time I saw Paris
The last day of the month
Had the last word
Waited until the last minute
He raised his voice in a last supreme call
The last game of the season
Down to his last nickel
Secondary
(geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
Secondary cleavage
Intermediate
Around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures;
An orange of average size
Intermediate capacity
A plane with intermediate range
Medium bombers
Secondary
(anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
Secondary
(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
Secondary
Of less than primary importance.
A secondary issue
Secondary
(education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
Secondary
(manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
Secondary
(of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
Secondary
Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
Secondary
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
Secondary
(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.
Secondary
(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, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
Secondary
(finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
Secondary
The defensive backs.
Secondary
(electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
Secondary
One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
The secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
Secondary
(astronomy) A secondary circle.
Secondary
(astronomy) A satellite.
Secondary
(education) A secondary school.
There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
Secondary
Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
Secondary
Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it.
Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four.
Secondary
Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
Secondary
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.
Secondary
Subsequent in origin; - said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
Secondary
Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
Secondary
Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
Secondary
One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.
Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary.
Secondary
A secondary circle.
Secondary
A secondary quill.
Secondary
The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
Secondary
Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
Secondary
Of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate;
The stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher
A secondary source
A secondary issue
Secondary streams
Secondary
Inferior in rank or status;
The junior faculty
A lowly corporal
Petty officialdom
A subordinate functionary
Secondary
Depending on or incidental to what is original or primary;
A secondary infection
Secondary
Not of major importance;
Played a secondary role in world events
Secondary
Belonging to a lower class or rank
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