"tertiary source" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tertiary sources [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tertiary source (plural tertiary sources)
  1. (general scholarship and historiography) A selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both. Wikipedia link: tertiary source Categories (topical): Historiography Synonyms: tertiary work Related terms: primary source, secondary source, secondary research Translations (selection, distillation, summary or compilation): tertiaire bron [feminine] (Dutch), tertiäärilähde (Finnish), მესამეული წყარო (mesameuli c̣q̇aro) [rare] (Georgian)
    Sense id: en-tertiary_source-en-noun-tDYeBcod Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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