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What is the noun for tertiaries?

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tertiary
  1. Any item considered to be of third order.
  2. A tertiary colour.
  3. (geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
  4. (ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
  5. (Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
tertiaries
  1. plural of tertiary
  2. Examples:
    1. “The humanitarian vocation also dominates branches of male tertiaries such as those of the Dominican and Carmelite orders.”
      “The colour wheel shows that the tertiaries also have their colour opposites, the complementary to orange-red, for instance, being blue-green.”
      “Individual tertiaries have written to ask how to get involved in prison ministry.”
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