Definisjon av tertiary

Vi fant 5 definisjoner av tertiary på engelsk.

WordNet

Noun
Tertiary - from 63 million to 2 million years ago
		Tertiary period
		age of mammals, cenozoic, cenozoic era approximately the last 63 million years
		pliocene, pliocene epoch from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
		miocene, miocene epoch from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals
		oligocene, oligocene epoch from 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats
		eocene, eocene epoch from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals

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Wiktionary

Substantiv
tertiary - The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.
Adjektiv
tertiary - Of or pertaining to the first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

Wikipedia

The Tertiary is a term for a geologic period 65 million to 1.8 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary. The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic era, spanning to the beginning of the most recent Ice Age, at the end of the Pliocene epoch.

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tertiary
A "C" road in the UK. Generally for use on roads wider than 4 metres (13') in width, and for faster/wider minor roads that aren't A or B roads. In the UK, they tend to have dashed lines down the middle, whereas unclassified roads don't.

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