Meanings
- alternativenot comparableuncommonAlternative form of second most.
Usually he cannot even buy time on the secondmost popular program on the secondmost popular network.
1973, Leon Quera, Advertising campaigns: formulation and tactics, page 793 more examples
In fact, this sort of initial stance explains inter alia: (a) secondmost nuclear status in valency marking...
1984, Frans Plank, Objects: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations, page 10Those two derived character states affected the location of maximum blade width (proximal quarter → secondmost proximal quarter) and the length/width ratio (3.00-3.99 → 2.00-2.99).
2003, Michael John O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman, Cladistics and Archaeology, page 213Next to the tzekel, the kankab–tzekel soils are the secondmost extensive in the Yucatan state; like the tzekel, they are transitional among Lithosoils, Rendzina and Terra Rossa.
2014, William J. Folan, Coba: A Classic Maya Metropolis, page 31
Origin
Probably influenced by foremost and other such terms (hindmost, etc).
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