secondary process
Americannoun
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In 2021, two-thirds of open housing beds were filled through this secondary process rather than Coordinated Entry.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023
This secondary process is also used to store high-energy hydrogen ions in the mitochondria of plant and animal cells for the production of ATP.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
This difference in charge is important to creating the conditions necessary for the secondary process.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
“Faulting could be a secondary process as opposed to the primary one,” he says.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 5, 2015
Wordsworth's primary function is to interpret nature to man: the interpretation of man to himself is with him a secondary process only-the response, in almost every instance, to impressions from without.
From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)
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