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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4
(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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stratigraphy (related)
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geological (related)
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geochronology (related)
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paleoecology (related)
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glacial (related)
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postglacial (related)
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palaeoenvironmental (related)
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Find another word for quaternary. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for quaternary, like: fourth, 4th, quaternate, four, 4, iv, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternity and quartet.
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Quaternary Sentence Examples

  • The great Hungarian plain is covered by Tertiary and Quaternary deposits, through which rise the Bakony-wald and the Mecsek ridge near Pecs (Funfkirchen).

  • Russia until the beginning of the Quaternary period.

  • 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.

  • " The term drift is now applied generally to the Quaternary deposits, which consist for the most part of gravel, sand, loam or brickearth and clay; it naturally refers to strata laid down at some distance from the rocks to whose destruction they are largely due; but, although applied to river deposits, the word drift is more appropriately used in reference to the accumulations of the Glacial period.

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