Septenary vs. Tertiary — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Septenary and Tertiary
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Septenary
Consisting of or containing seven.
Tertiary
Tertiary ( TUR-shə-ree, TUR-shee-err-ee) is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago. The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, and extended to the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation at the end of the Pliocene Epoch.
Septenary
Of seventh rank or order.
Tertiary
Third in place, order, degree, or rank.
Septenary
Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
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Tertiary
Of, relating to, or designating the short flight feathers nearest the body on the rear edge of a bird's wing.
Septenary
A group of seven things.
Tertiary
Of, relating to, or having a carbon atom that is attached to three other carbon atoms in a molecule.
Septenary
A period of seven years.
Tertiary
Of or relating to the replacement of three of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which three valences of the functional group are taken by carbon atoms.
Septenary
(music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.
Tertiary
Of or relating to salts of acids containing three replaceable hydrogen atoms.
Septenary
Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number.
Tertiary
Tertiary Of, relating to, or being the period of geologic time from about 66 to about 2.6 million years ago, the older of the two periods of the Cenozoic Era. The Tertiary Period is characterized by the appearance of modern flora, insects, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, and by the dominance of mammals as vertebrate life forms on land. See Table at geologic time.
Septenary
Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
Tertiary
A tertiary feather.
Septenary
The number seven.
Tertiary
Tertiary The Tertiary Period.
Tertiary
Roman Catholic Church A member of a religious Third Order.
Tertiary
Of third rank or order; subsequent.
Tertiary
(chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
A tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt
Tertiary
(ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
Tertiary
Any item considered to be of third order.
Tertiary
A tertiary colour.
Tertiary
(geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
Tertiary
(ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
Tertiary
(military) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.
A gigaton-scale weapon would of necessity be a three-stage design (incorporating a fusion tertiary - likely with its own massive fission tamper - in addition to the fission primary and fission-jacketed fusion secondary), as a reasonably-sized primary would likely have difficulty imploding to ignition the enormous secondary that would be required to reach a one-gigaton yield with a two-stage thermonuclear.
Tertiary
(Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
Tertiary
Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
Tertiary
Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
Tertiary
Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
Tertiary
Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; - said of quills.
Tertiary
A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
Tertiary
The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
Tertiary
One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Tertiary
From 63 million to 2 million years ago
Tertiary
Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
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