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Second, 1/60 of a minute.
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definition
One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
definition
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
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A short, indeterminate amount of time.
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I'll be there in a second.
Examples of sec in a Sentence
The declaration is to the effect that the clergyman has not received the presentation in consideration of any sum of money, reward, gift, profit or benefit directly or indirectly given or promised by him or any one for him to any one; that he has not made any promise of resignation other than that allowed by the Clerical Resignation Bonds Act 1828; that he has not for any money or benefit procured the avoidance of the benefice; and that he has not been party to any agreement invalidated by sec. 3 sub-sec. 3 of the act which invalidates any agreement for the exercise of a right of patronage in favour or on the nomination of any particular person, and any agreement on the transfer of a right of patronage (a) for the retransfer of the right, or (b) for postponing payment of any part of the consideration for the transfer until a vacancy or for more than three months, or (c) for payment of interest until a vacancy or for more than three months, or (d) for any payment in respect of the date at which a vacancy occurs, or (e) for the resignation of a benefice in favour of any person.
She answered without pause and then spent long seconds looking down at her coffee, as if searching for words to clarify her statement.
As each division corresponds to 3 sec.
The cartesian equation referred to the axis and directrix is y=c cosh (x/c) or y = Zc(e x / c +e x / c); other forms are s = c sinh (x/c) and y 2 =c 2 -1-s 2, being the arc measured from the vertex; the intrinsic equation is s = c tan The radius of curvature and normal are each equal to c sec t '.
Taking two planes x = =b, and considering the increase of momentum in the liquid between them, due to the entry and exit of liquid momentum, the increase across dy in the direction Oy, due to elements at P and P' at opposite ends of the diameter PP', is pdy (U - Ua 2 r2 cos 20 +mr i sin 0) (Ua 2 r 2 sin 2 0+mr 1 cos 0) + pdy (- U+Ua 2 r 2 cos 2 0 +mr1 sin 0) (Ua 2 r 2 sin 2 0 -mr 1 cos 0) =2pdymUr '(cos 0 -a 2 r 2 cos 30), (8) and with b tan r =b sec this is 2pmUdo(i -a 2 b2 cos 30 cos 0), (9) and integrating between the limits 0 = 27r, the resultant, as before, is 27rpmU.
The first, from the north, comprises the upper basins Sec ti of the Maranon and the Huallaga, and is 350 m.
The sec and phase of the offensive as planned could not even be commenced.
If w is the weight of a locomotive in tons, r the radius of curvature of the track, v the velocity in feet per sec.; then the horizontal force exerted on the bridge is wv 2 /gr tons.
Replacing then the angle i on the right-hand side of equations (54) - (56) by some mean value, t, we introduce Siacci's pseudovelocity u defined by (59) u = q sec, t, so that u is a quasi-component parallel to the mean direction of the tangent, say the direction of the chord of the arc.
Also the velocity v at the end of the arc is given by (87) ve = u e sec 0 cos n.
It Implies A Year Differing In Excess From The True Year Only By 19.45 Sec., While The Gregorian Year Is Too Long By 26 Sec. It Produces A Much Nearer Coincidence Between The Civil And Solar Years Than The Gregorian Method; And, By Reason Of Its Shortness Of Period, Confines The Evagations Of The Mean Equinox From The True Within Much Narrower Limits.
For the various conceptions of the church as an organized body see CHURCH HISTORY, sec. 3, and the articles on the various churches.
It is possible to adjust the apparatus so that a tilt of Tolua sec. of arc, or a change of slope of t in.
On that footing the foreign office grants passports to the holders of colonial certificates of naturalization, and protects them in all foreign countries but that of their origin; and the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, sec. 1, allows persons naturalized in British possessions to be owners of British ships.
The ratio of the axes of the ellipse is sec a, the longer axis being in the plane of 0.
It seems possible that sherry was the first wine known as sack in this country, but it is at least doubtful whether this word is, as some contend, derived from seck or sec, i.e.
It is in practice, however, restricted to the "Protestant Dissenters" referred to in sec. ii.
Sec. 16 contains a provision empowering the chief governor and privy council of Ireland by a proclamation under the great seal of Ireland to suspend the act during such time only as there shall be an actual invasion or rebellion in Ireland; and it is enacted that during the currency of the proclamation no judge or justices shall bail or try any person charged with being concerned in the rebellion or invasion without an order from the lord lieutenant or lord deputy and senior of the privy council.
If the angle between these is 20, the velocity of the body is w sec 0, where w for water is about 23 centimetres per second.
The practice has a well-ascertained tendency to excite the imagination; and in so far as it disturbs that healthy and wellbalanced interaction of body and mind which is the best or at least the normal condition for the practice of virtue, it is to be deprecated rather than encouraged (Theologische Ethik, sec. 873-875).
But by the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 the two archbishops were empowered, subject to the approval of the sovereign by sign-manual, from time to time to appoint a practising barrister of ten years' standing, or a person who had been a judge of one of the superior courts (being a member of the Church of England) to be, during good behaviour, a judge for the purpose of exercising jurisdiction under that act, and it was enacted (sec. 7) that on a vacancy occurring in the office of official principal of the Arches court the judge should become officio such official principal.
At the end of filling the matrix controller yields short beeps with 1 sec period.
Some SEC Black Tie events are less strict e.g. cocktail dress would be fine.
A 7 man break formed on the second lap and soon forged a 45 sec gap.
Dave chased and caught to claim both a team gold medal and the day's fastest lap of 9 min 27 sec.
Katie Hewitt won 300m hurdles in 46.4 and was 2nd in 80m hurdles in 12.4 sec.
Anyone who thinks they may be able to help us is cordially invited to get in touch with Cliff Voisey, Hon Sec.
A Spaceman Came Traveling... Chris de Burgh prompts some fictional musings from C. J. Charlton Clzfrwgl decelerated and shifted into sec ond gear.
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It said the SEC had shown pragmatism in the rules it had adopted and showed it could listen to criticism.
What might be the future of the SEC's requirement for foreign registrants to provide a reconciliation of selected financial information to US GAAP?
Oh wait a sec, didn't I fight 3 months to move the SAP authentication to LDAP?
For special rules where there is a change in the basic rate - see ibid. sec.
Hilary will talk to the OUMC meets sec about it.
He also proposed a vote of thanks for the hon sec for the hard work involved over the past year.
Each spin period is about 10 sec and within one file typically the spin axis changes by a few degrees.
The mean peak of the response was at 10.5 sec after stimulus onset, with little further change until stimulus onset, with little further change until stimulus offset.
Coventry airport would reach a maximum throughput of 0.25 million tons by 2030 under the SEC scenario.
The average acceleration in feet per second is measured by the fraction Change of speed in feet per sec. 60.07-58.6 64 tons; and to obtain the horse-power the boiler will be one of the largest that can be built to the construction gauge.
Given the area A of the plane between the two horizontal contours, the height h of the upper above the lower contour, the length of the upper contour 1, and the area of the face presented by the edge of the upper stratum l.h = A 1, the slope a is found to be tan a = h.l I (A - A i); hence its superficies, A = A2 sec a.
His name, in the form of Iskander, is familiar in legend and story all over the East to this day; to the West he was introduced through a Latin translation of the original Greek romance (by the pseudo-Callisthenes) to which the innumerable Oriental versions are likewise traceable (see Alexander Iii., King Of Macedon; sec. The Romance of Alexander).
But, as originally pointed out by Euler, the difficulty can be turned if we notice that in the ordinary trajectory of practice the quantities i, cos i, and sec i vary so slowly that they may be replaced by their mean values,, t, cos 7 7, and sec r t, especially if the trajectory, when considerable, is divided up in the calculation into arcs of small curvature, the curvature of an arc being defined as the angle between the tangents or normals at the ends of the arc.
So Zoroaster himself converted the Turanian Fryana with his kindred (sec above); and the same tendency to proselytize alien peoples survived in his religion.
What might be the future of the SEC 's requirement for foreign registrants to provide a reconciliation of selected financial information to US GAAP?
It 's going to go well with parma ham, saucisson sec, ardene pate and fresh white chunks of bread coated in butter.
Oh wait a sec, did n't I fight 3 months to move the SAP authentication to LDAP?
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He also proposed a vote of thanks for the Hon Sec for the hard work involved over the past year.
The mean peak of the response was at 10.5 sec after stimulus onset, with little further change until stimulus offset.
Penny stock companies listed on pink sheets do not have to file with the SEC like companies listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ.