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  • adjective Alternative form of quaternary.

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Examples

  • I don't know much about alkaline copper quarternary amine and copper azole yet.

    Build An A-Frame Vegetable Trellis For Small Footprint Gardening | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • I don't know much about alkaline copper quarternary amine and copper azole yet.

    Build An A-Frame Vegetable Trellis For Small Footprint Gardening | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • I had noticed these last two weeks that Jean's drawings and colouring in have really really improoved - instead of random scribbles and things there is structure and now there is secondary, tertiary and even quarternary structures.

    Snell-Pym » Good Drawing 2009

  • Sensing they were on a winning streak, they got engaged on the same day, married at a joint ceremony officially "quarternary marriages", and built a pair of homes, side by side.

    Lucky Look-alikes 2008

  • Sensing they were on a winning streak, they got engaged on the same day, married at a joint ceremony officially "quarternary marriages", and built a pair of homes, side by side.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • Then, most of the linked dictionaries throw in a tertiary or quarternary i.e., not actually used very widely or frequently definition describing a broader, vaguer notion that resembles the majoritarian conceptions within UUism.

    Humanist Parents Recreating Religious Community Steve Caldwell 2008

  • During the Tertiary and quarternary ice ages the continents were in the same positions as they are today, relatively speaking anyway.

    A few inconvenient truths « Climate Audit 2006

  • They possessed all four of the Kahn Criteria: the extractive industries, the manufacturing industries, the service industries, and the quarternary activities "done for their own sake."

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • They possessed all four of the Kahn Criteria: the extractive industries, the manufacturing industries, the service industries, and the quarternary activities "done for their own sake."

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • They possessed all four of the Kahn Criteria: the extractive industries, the manufacturing industries, the service industries, and the quarternary activities "done for their own sake."

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

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