The quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Other injuries caused by an explosion, such as burns, are called quaternary injuries. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006] Reference
The quaternary is the most perfect number, and the root of other numbers, and of all things. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
The current one is known as the quaternary glaciation and started about 4 million years ago. From Wordnik.com. [seMissourian.com Headlines] Reference
But basically we are in what is called the quaternary period and for the past 200,000 years we have been going in and out of ice ages. From Wordnik.com. [we are running out of time | My[confined]Space] Reference
Use of sanitizers such as quaternary ammonium compounds that destroy the live components of milk. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Congress begins investigating salmonella outbreak, egg recalls] Reference
Everything else is secondary, tertiary, quaternary. From Wordnik.com. [Midlife milestones] Reference
It overlies quaternary deposits mainly of sand sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Doñana National Park, Spain] Reference
The flora itself at the quaternary age was of extreme vigor. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
Late quaternary history of Henderson Island, Pitcairn group. From Wordnik.com. [Tuamotu tropical moist forests] Reference
Nukuhivan Islands, the decimal-quaternary system is more regular. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
Pythagoras of yore, when initiated into the sacred quaternary of numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Irving] Reference
The volcanic and quaternary geological formations are rich in groundwater. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Kenya] Reference
All numbers above that point belong rather to decimal than to quaternary numeration. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
The park is illustrated as a center of evolutionary endemism and a quaternary refuge. From Wordnik.com. [Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru] Reference
In the natural formation of a quaternary scale new units would be introduced at 16, 64. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
For the quaternary theorist, selection is determined by the values of the contrast relata. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
The existence therefore of man in the quaternary period seemed to become daily more certain. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
The wood preservative ACQ alkaline copper quaternary can corrode some low-quality fasteners. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: How can we get a new area of our wood deck to match the existing part?] Reference
One can only wonder what the real tertiary and quaternary impact was on stock prices and jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Spitzer Sues Chip Makers Over Alleged Price Fixing] Reference
The wood preservative ACQ (alkaline copper quaternary) can corrode some low-quality fasteners. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: How can we get a new area of our wood deck to match the existing part?] Reference
The most effective quaternary amine derivates are aromatic or aliphatic amines, and amine salts. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
The African rainforest vegetation and palaeoenvironments during late quaternary climatic change. From Wordnik.com. [Central Congolian lowland forests] Reference
In T.C. Whitmore, and G.T. Prance, editors, Biogeography and quaternary history in tropical America. From Wordnik.com. [Pernambuco interior forests] Reference
In: T.C. Whitmore, and G.T. Prance, editors, Biogeography and quaternary history in tropical America. From Wordnik.com. [Serra do Mar coastal forests] Reference
In these explanations, we find some trace of the cabalistic mysteries and the quaternary of Pythagoras. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The quaternary element thus introduced has modified the entire structure of the Hawaiian number system. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
Pages 66-104 in T. Whitemore, and G. Prance, editors, Biogeography and quaternary history in Tropical America. From Wordnik.com. [Napo moist forests] Reference
"Thirty metals may be combined into 435 binary alloys, 4,060 ternary alloys, 27,405 quaternary alloys" (Jevons). From Wordnik.com. [The Classification of Patents] Reference
Pages 66-104 in T.C. Whitmore, and G.T. Prance, editors, Biogeography and quaternary history in tropical America. From Wordnik.com. [Bahia coastal forests] Reference
Bystrinskiy Zakaznik in the Sredinniy range has quaternary volcanic formations in various states of conservation. From Wordnik.com. [Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation] Reference
Pages 105-150 in T.C. Whitmore, and G.T. Prance, editors, Biogeography and quaternary history in tropical America. From Wordnik.com. [Bahia coastal forests] Reference
Pages 175-196 in T.C. Whitmore, and G.T. Prance, editors, Biogeography and quaternary history in tropical America. From Wordnik.com. [Bahia coastal forests] Reference
Therefore the genuineness of a fossil human relic of the quaternary period seemed to be incontestably proved and admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
The quaternary alluvial aquifers of the lakeshore plains and the Lower Shire valley, which are high yielding (up to 20 L/s). From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Malawi] Reference
He also discovered the therapeutic value of the quaternary ammonium bases and he also extended, in collaboration with Klarer and. From Wordnik.com. [Gerhard Domagk - Biography] Reference
Others, such as amine quaternary derivates, which are intended to be used in very low concentrations, are difficult to mix m evenly. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Lowlands south of and below the Phanom Dongrak scarp are composed of quaternary colluvial deposits of rocks, sandy gravels and clays. From Wordnik.com. [Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand] Reference
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