Septenary vs. Tertiary
Septenaryadjective
Consisting of or containing seven.
Septenaryadjective
Of seventh rank or order.
Septenaryadjective
Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
Septenarynoun
A group of seven things.
Septenarynoun
A period of seven years.
Septenarynoun
(music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.
Septenaryadjective
Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number.
Septenaryadjective
Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
Septenarynoun
The number seven.
Tertiaryadjective
Of third rank or order; subsequent.
Tertiaryadjective
(chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
Tertiaryadjective
(ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
Tertiarynoun
Any item considered to be of third order.
Tertiarynoun
A tertiary colour.
Tertiarynoun
(geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
Tertiarynoun
(ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
Tertiarynoun
(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.
Tertiaryadjective
Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
Tertiaryadjective
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.
Tertiaryadjective
Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
Tertiaryadjective
Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; - said of quills.
Tertiarynoun
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.
Tertiarynoun
The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
Tertiarynoun
One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Tertiarynoun
from 63 million to 2 million years ago
Tertiaryadjective
coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
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.
