Quaternary synonyms

kwŏt'ər-nĕr'ē, kwə-tûr'nə-rē

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fourth
Designating any of the four equal parts of something
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4th
Abbreviation of fourth.
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quaternate
Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four.
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four
(Cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
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(Printing) Abbreviation of quarto, a standard size range for books, corresponding to the paper size.
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iv
An apparatus for providing intravenous injections.
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tetrad
A group of four cells, as of spores or pollen grains, formed from a parent cell by meiosis. As part of the process of spermatogenesis, a spermatocyte divides into a tetrad of four spermatids, cells which go on to develop into sperm.
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quatern
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
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quaternion
A set of four persons or items.
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quaternity
(Uncountable) The state of being four; fourness.
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quartet
Any group of four persons or things
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quadruplet
(Music) A group of four notes having the time value of three notes of the same kind.
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foursome
An activity involving four people, such as a golf match.
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little-joe
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
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Quaternary period
last 2 million years
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Age of Man
last 2 million years
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holocene (related)
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palaeoenvironments (related)
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cenozoic (related)
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sedimentary (related)
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late-glacial (related)
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biostratigraphy (related)
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pleistocene (related)
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sedimentology (related)
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palaeoceanography (related)
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paleoecology (related)
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  • The great Hungarian plain is covered by Tertiary and Quaternary deposits, through which rise the Bakony-wald and the Mecsek ridge near Pecs (Funfkirchen).

  • For instance, those of a ternary form involve two classes which may be geometrically interpreted as point and line co-ordinates in a plane; those of a quaternary form involve three classes which may be geometrically interpreted as point, line and plane coordinates in space.

  • They are ionized in aqueous solution to a much greater extent than ammonia, the quaternary ammonium bases being the most ionized, and the secondary bases being more strongly ionized than the primary or tertiary bases.

  • By the action of ammonia on the alkyl iodides a complex mixture of primary, secondary and tertiary amines, along with a quaternary ammonium salt, is obtained, the separation of which is difficult.

  • If the nitrogen atom in the quaternary ammonium salts be in combination with four different groups, then the molecule is asymmetrical, and the salt can be resolved into optically active enantiamorphous isomerides.

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