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tertiary source
noun[ C ]
science, social science specializeduk /ˌtɜː.ʃər.i ˈsɔːs/ us /ˌtɝː.ʃi.er.i ˈsɔːrs/
a report, article, etc. that examines and analyses a range of secondary sources(= texts in which the writer writes about an event or period that they themselves have not experienced, using information that they have obtained from other people or documents):
The writer who has not interacted with the original material and relies only on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source.
Encyclopedias can be considered to be tertiary sources.
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Tertiary sources collate and summarize mostly secondary sources.
The website is an unedited, non-fact-checked tertiary source that anyone can manipulate at any time.
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