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
It may be that physical birth is but a secondary process; and that prior to the possibility, the Mother Spirit searches for, until it finds, the small Element—the primal Ego or child's soul.
From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by Hodgson, William Hope
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