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secondary process

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noun

Psychoanalysis.
  1. the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.


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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

In a secondary process like this, if only the cup were borne even, no harm could result, and it is of the greatest possible importance that the foundation of the building should be sound.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William