Tertiary (disambiguation)
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Tertiary is an adjective meaning "third" or "third hand". It may refer to:
- The Tertiary period of the geologic timescale
- Tertiaries, members of a Third order (lay folk connected with a Mendicant Order).
- Ternary, the base-3 numeral system.
- A tertiary consumer in an ecological sense.
- A Tertiary functional group (or usually ion) attached to carbon atom connected to 3 other Carbon atoms in organic chemistry
- Tertiaries, the smallest group of remiges (wing feathers), which attach to the upper arm. Usually, they are not flight feathers, but more like body plumage.
- In economics the tertiary sector (of industry) is the service sector or the service industry (as opposed to the primary -agricultural and natural resources- and secondary, manufacturing)
- In biochemistry, the tertiary structure of a protein is its overall shape, also known as its fold.
- Tertiary or post-secondary education
- Tertiary care is specialized consultative healthcare.
