tertiary
pronunciation
How to pronounce tertiary in British English:
UK [ˈtɜːʃəri]
How to pronounce tertiary in American English:
US [ˈtɜːrʃieri]
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- Adjective:
- coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
Word Origin
- tertiary
- tertiary: see third
- tertiary (adj.)
- 1650s, "of the third order, rank, degree, etc.," from Latin tertiarius "of or pertaining to a third," from tertius "third, a third," from root of tres "three" (see three). The geological sense (with capital T-) of "era after the Mesozoic" (which formerly was called the Secondary) is attested from 1794, after Italian terziari, used in this sense 1760 by Italian geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795).
Example
- 1. Meanwhile private money is flooding into tertiary education .
- 2. Glands present in vein axils of lateral and tertiary veins .
- 3. Macao education fund for tertiary student loan .
- 4. Since 1985 , we began to establish the gdp and the system of the statistics of the tertiary industry .
- 5. The statistics bureau on friday revised upward economic growth for 2009 to 9.1 % from 8.7 % . The revision was due to higher contributions from secondary and tertiary industries .