secondary

(a) being 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
(s) inferior in rank or status
- the junior faculty
- a lowly corporal
- petty officialdom
- a subordinate functionary
junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, subaltern, lowly,
(s) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
- a secondary infection
(s) not of major importance
- played a secondary role in world events
(s) belonging to a lower class or rank

(n) the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
(n) coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil secondary coil, secondary winding,

junior-grade lower-ranking petty subaltern lowly secondary coil secondary winding

primary

secondary amenorrhea secondary cell secondary censorship secondary coil secondary dentition secondary diagonal secondary dysmenorrhea secondary education secondary emission secondary hypertension secondary modern school secondary school secondary sex character secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary storage secondary syphilis secondary winding