Concomitant vs Secondary - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between concomitant and secondary

is that concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent while secondary is succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

As nouns the difference between concomitant and secondary

is that concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time while secondary is Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

concomitant
English

Adjective
(-)
Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.

* (John Locke)

It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.

* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:

The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

Synonyms
* (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental
Noun
(en noun)
Something happening or existing at the same time.

* 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:

The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.

* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:

It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.

An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

Synonyms
* (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrence
Related terms
* concomitance * concomitantly * concomitate ----
secondary
English
(wikipedia secondary)
Adjective
(en adjective)
Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary.

(geology) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

(zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.

(medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.

Of less than primary importance.

*

(of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.

Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.

Coordinate terms
(terms coordinate to secondary) * primary (1) * tertiary (3) * quaternary (4) * quinary (5) * senary (6) * septenary (7) * octonary (8) * nonary (9) * denary (10) * duodenary (12) * vigenary (20)
Noun
(secondaries)

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.

(finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.

(American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.

(electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar

One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.

the secondary , or undersheriff, of the city of London

* Shakespeare

Old Escalus is thy secondary .

(astronomy) A secondary circle.

(astronomy) A satellite.
(Webster 1913)