Definitions
coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
Word origin
Derived from Latin quaternārius (“containing or consisting of four”), from quaternī (“four each”, “four at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quaternaire.
Used in a sentence
“the quaternary stress in a pronounced word”
“Meronyms: Pleistocene, Holocene, Anthropocene, assholocene”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Fourth in order”10 letters
02“Fourth in a sequence”10 letters
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