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The temperature of deep waters seems to be constant for all latitudes at 39°; so that an immense area of the North Atlantic must have had its conditions unaffected by tertiary or post-tertiary oscillations.

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  1. adjective Third in place, order, degree, or rank.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or designating the short flight feathers nearest the body on the rear edge of a bird's wing.
  3. adjective Chemistry Of or relating to salts of acids containing three replaceable hydrogen atoms.

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  1. Latin tertiārius, from tertius, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French tertiaire = Spanish tercero = Portuguese terceiro = Italian terziario, from Latin tertiarius, containing a third part, from tertius, third: see tertian.
 

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