tertiary
- noun
- /ˈtɜrʃiˌɛri/
- The university offers a variety of programs for tertiary students looking to specialize in different fields.
- primary, secondary, and tertiary
- tertiary vs. primary
- tertiary care
Examples
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In many countries, access to tertiary education has greatly increased over the last few decades.
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RTI is represented graphically by a pyramid shape with three levels or tiers: universal, secondary, and tertiary.
Academic text (2011) -
However, in nearly all studies, such results were reported as secondary or tertiary.
Academic text (2015) -
Going abroad for tertiary education in those days was a expensive proposition.
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Prevention has been classified into three types: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
Academic text (1995) -
Public tertiary care hospitals are the main health-care providers, and most patients access these hospitals even for common illnesses.
Academic text (2016) -
After preschool, you attend elementary, secondary, tertiary, graduate school, and post-graduate school.
Blog text (16) -
Before the introduction of JAMB, each tertiary institution carried out its own admission process in its entirety.
Academic text (2006) -
Prevention efforts may be primary, secondary, or tertiary (Kazdin, 1996).
Academic text (1999) -
After completing secondary school, he enrolled in a tertiary institution to pursue his degree.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A late serious stage of an infection spread by sex that damages major organs like the brain and heart
- Archaic
A time about 63 million to 2 million years ago after the Cretaceous and before the Quaternary
Surface Forms
Morphology
tertiary = third (transparent) = terti + ary
Used as a noun to indicate a third level or stage, the formation is transparently the adjectival/nominal use of 'terti-' + '-ary'.
Etymology
Tertiary comes from the Latin tertius, meaning 'third', and as a noun it means a 'third' level or stage in a system. So a tertiary can be the third part of education after primary and secondary, or any third part in a sequence.