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Sec

//sɛk// name, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    (of champagne) moderately dry wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Securities and Exchange Commission. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "“Anyway, Kaspersky took her story to the SEC. I’m sorry, it’s rude to throw obscure acronyms around. I mean the Securities and Exchange Commission. They’re the people who look after my industry.” Vincent knew what the SEC was, because she made an effort to follow the financial news, but she only nodded."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of Southeastern Conference, a college athletics conference US, abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    Initialism of State Electricity Commission. Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute. informal

    "It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second)."

  2. 2
    Initialism of scavenger endothelial cell. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors wordnet
  4. 4
    Clipping of second (“short indeterminate period of time”). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial

    "Wait a sec!"

  5. 5
    ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle wordnet
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  1. 6
    Clipping of secretary. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, especially

    "shadow sec"

  2. 7
    1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites wordnet

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