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Meaning of sec.

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

sec.

noun

Definitions

  1. Something that is number two in a series.

  2. Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.

  3. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.

  4. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

    Example: They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.

  3. A short, indeterminate amount of time.

    Example: I'll be there in a second.

noun

Definitions

  1. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.

  2. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.

    Example: If we want the motion to pass, we will need a second.

  3. Aid; assistance; help.

noun

Definitions

  1. Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.

  2. A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.

  3. (often capitalized) The head of a department of government.

  4. A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.

    Example: Ban Ki-Moon was a secretary general of the United Nations.

noun

Definitions

  1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

  2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

  3. A part of a document.

  4. An act or instance of cutting.

preposition

Definitions

  1. According to