Quaternary

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Consisting of four; in fours.
  • adj. Of or belonging to the geologic time, system of rocks, or sedimentary deposits of the second period of the Cenozoic Era, from the end of the Tertiary Period through the present, characterized by the appearance and development of humans and including the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. See Table at geologic time.
  • adj. Chemistry Relating to an atom bonded to four carbon atoms: a quarternary nitrogen atom.
  • n. The number four.
  • n. The member of a group that is fourth in order.
  • n. The Quaternary Period or its system of deposits.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of fourth rank or order.
  • adj. Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x4.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
  • adj. Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary.
  • n. The number four.
  • n. The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of four; arranged or grouped in fours.
  • [capitalized] In geology, noting that part of the geological series which is more recent than the Tertiary; Post-tertiary. (See Tertiary.)
  • In old chemistry, noting those compounds which contained four elements, as fibrin, gelatin, etc.
  • In mathematics, containing, as a quantic, or homogeneous integral function, four variables.
  • n. A group of four things.
  • Fourfold or tetragonal: said of the symmetry of crystals. See symmetry, 6.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four
  • n. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
  • n. last 2 million years
  • adj. coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
    • Equivalent
    multiple    ordinal   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    digit    figure    geological period    period   
    Cross Reference
    quaternary cubic    quaternary number    quaternary quadrics    octonary    binary   
    Variant
    geology   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    posttertiary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vigesimal    n-node    ternary    intermetallic    11-syllable   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.