secondary processes
Britishplural noun
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Learning, humour; these more advanced capabilities are known as secondary processes, but the primary processes are built in by evolution as part of the instincts for living in the basement of the brain.
From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015
And rather than the primary processes, which are automatic, these secondary processes require more thinking.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2012
These two planetary secondary processes, of heating and evaporation, are of vital importance to the working of the atmospheric machine.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James
In this fashion this series of secondary processes, involving both transformations and transmissions, is linked to the great atmospheric process.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James
The terminology by which these secondary processes are described is not altogether satisfactory, and logicians are not agreed as to the application of the terms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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