Tertiary in a sentence as a noun

In short, buildings that house the tertiary sector.

They are moving to a, at best, tertiary market -- meaning there is a very good chance that they will have to move again for their next job.

But it's all the tertiary economy, it's all flash: the fundamentals of advertising as a business model only get weaker over time.

Obtain a professional network"Learning" is really a tertiary priority.

The tertiary argument that as name spaces went a 'layered system', one where a level of abstraction was added to allow for changing the underlying space, would be better than tying it to DNS names, was also unsuccessful.

Tertiary in a sentence as an adjective

If this black hole binary is orbited by a tertiary black hole, the tertiary can also induce precession in the inner binary, so OJ 287 would not need to be so massive, which would make the triple model more plausible.

Indeed, GCE is caught in a nasty catch-22: because of Google's track record of killing tertiary services, the market is very much waiting for it to become primary for Google -- but because the market is waiting, it may well never be.

This is part of the reason why the 787 and the A350 are selling so well; they enable flights to and from secondary or tertiary hub cities for which there is plenty of demand, just not enough demand to fill daily super-jumbo aircraft.

Relating back to a common topic here, one of the things that distinguishes between senior engineers and not senior engineers in my experience is the ability to visualize both secondary and tertiary consequences of a particular change to the system.

On the other hand, if after making a genuine effort, you discover you simply cannot learn in a structured setting such as a secondary or tertiary educational institution, do not surrender your career inspirations: plenty of choices are still available to you.

Tertiary definitions

noun

from 63 million to 2 million years ago

See also: Tertiary

adjective

coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

See also: third