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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 difference in charge is important to creating the conditions necessary for the secondary process.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

“Faulting could be a secondary process as opposed to the primary one,” he says.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 5, 2015

In cases of chronic interstitial nephritis—contracted granular kidney—it may well be that the sclerosis of the arteries is a secondary process caused, as Adami thinks, by the hypertension itself.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

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