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ARC SECOND

Specialty Definition: ARC SECOND

DomainDefinition

Geological

1/3600th of a degree (1 second) of latitude or longitude. (references)

Physics

Abbreviated arcsec. A unit of angular measure in which there are 60 arc seconds in 1 arc minute and therefore 3600 arc seconds in 1 arc degree. One arc second is equal to about 725 km on the Sun. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ARC SECOND

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HST has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of .1 arc second, a mysterious elliptical ring of ... Credit: NASA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ARC SECOND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

arc second

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: ARC SECOND

Misspellings

"ARC SECOND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arcsecond. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ARC SECOND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: endosarc.

-2 letters: accords, acnodes, cancers, candors, coarsen, corneas, dancers, deacons, narcose, sconced, scorned.

-3 letters: accord, acnode, acorns, adores, adorns, anodes, arseno, ascend, cadres, cancer, candor, caners, canoed, canoes, casern, cedarn, cedars, censor, coarse, codecs, codens, coders, cornea, corned, corsac, craned, cranes, credos, crones, dancer, dances, deacon, decors, denars, drones, nacred, nacres, narcos, oceans.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-n-o-r-s"
 

+2 letters: accordances, archdeacons, cladocerans, consecrated, cotransduce, discordance.

 

+3 letters: accelerandos, archdiocesan, concordances, cotransduced, cotransduces, deconsecrate, discordances.

 

+4 letters: confederacies, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, discordancies, reconsecrated, subcontracted, unconsecrated.

 

+5 letters: accreditations, archdeaconries, deconcentrates, deconsecrating, deconsecration, decortications, hydromechanics, monosaccharide, preadolescence, radiolucencies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ARC SECOND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 52 43      53 45 43 4F 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010010 01000011 00100000 01010011 01000101 01000011 01001111 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#82 &#67 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0043      0053 0045 0043 004F 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3552372533937494838

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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