secondary stress
noun/ˌsekəndri ˈstres/
/ˌsekənderi ˈstres/
[uncountable, countable] (phonetics)- the second strongest stress that is put on a syllable in a word or a phrase when it is spoken compare primary stressTopics Languagec1
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