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Definition: Sec |
SecAdjective1. (of champagne) moderately dry. Noun1. 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the System International d'Unites. 2. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side. 3. A United States government agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sec" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | SEC Single Edge Contact Cartridge. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Agriculture | Office of the Secretary; Securities and Exchange Commission. (references) |
Census | Previous designation for the (Security Office), Bureau of the Census. (references) |
Space | Sun-Earth Connection (one of four themes in the NASA Office of Space Science. (references) |
| Second. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Second (symbol: s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. It is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
Historically, the second was defined in terms of the rotation of the Earth as 1/86,400 of a mean solar day. In 1956, the International Committee for Weights and Measures, under the authority given it by the Tenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1954, defined the second in terms of the period of revolution of the Earth around the Sun for a particular epoch, because by then it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time. The Earth's motion was described in Newcomb's Tables of the Sun, which provides a formula for the motion of the Sun at the epoch 1900 based on astronomical observations made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The ephemeris second thus defined is
This definition was ratified by the Eleventh General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960. Reference to the year 1900 does not mean that this is the epoch of a mean solar day of 86,400 seconds. Rather, it is the epoch of the tropical year of 31,556,925.9747 seconds of ephemeris time. Ephemeris Time (ET) was defined as the measure of time that brings the observed positions of the celestial bodies into accord with the Newtonian dynamical theory of motion.
- the fraction 1/31,556,925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time.
Following several years of work, two astronomers at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and two astronomers at the National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, England) determined the relationship between the frequency of the cesium atom (the standard of time) and the ephemeris second. They determined the orbital motion of the Moon about the Earth, from which the apparent motion of the Sun could be inferred, in terms of time as measured by an atomic clock. As a result, in 1967 the Thirteenth General Conference on Weights and Measures defined the second of atomic time in the International System of Units (SI) as
The ground state is defined at zero magnetic field. The second thus defined is equivalent to the ephemeris second.
- the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
See also: leap second, the "orders of magnitude" page that contains the second
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Second (symbol: ") is a unit for angles.
To distinguish from the time unit, these are often referred to as seconds of arc and minutes of arc. One second of time is fifteen seconds of arc as the earth turns.
- One degree = 60 minutes
- One minute = 60 seconds
See also: radian
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Second."
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For other uses of the acronym SEC, see SEC (disambiguation) The Securities and Exchange Commission, commonly referred to as the SEC, is the United States governing body which has primary responsibility for overseeing the regulation of the securities industry. It enforces, among other acts, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisors Act. It removed regulatory authority from the Federal Trade Commission.The SEC has five Commissioners who are appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. Their terms last five years and are staggered so that one Commissioner's term ends on June 5 of each year. To ensure that the SEC remains non-partisan, no more than three Commissioners may belong to the same political party. The President also designates one of the Commissioners as Chairman, the SEC's top executive.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, President John F. Kennedy's father, to serve as the first Chairman of the SEC. For a list of other appointees, see: Securities and Exchange Commission appointees.
Related legislation
See also: Financial supervision
- 1964 - Securities Act Amendments PL 88-467
- 1968 - Securities Disclosure Act PL 90-439
- 1975 - Securities and Exchange Act PL 94-29
- 1980 - Depository Institutions and Deregulation Money Control Act PL 96-221
- 1982 - Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act PL 97-320
- 1984 - Insider Trading Sanctions Act PL 98-376
- 1988 - Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act PL 100-704
- 1989 - Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement PL 101-73
- 1999 - Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act PL 106-102
- 2002 - Sarbanes-Oxley Act
External link
- Securities and Exchange Commission website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Securities and Exchange Commission."
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The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I-A.There are twelve member schools:
East Division
West Division
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia
- University of Kentucky
- University of South Carolina
- University of Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- Auburn University
- Louisiana State University (LSU)
- University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
- Mississippi State University
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Southeastern Conference."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SEC | English | Steric Exclusion Chromatography | Chemistry |
SEC | French | Commission des titres et de la bourse | Finance |
SEC | Italian | Sistema europeo di conti economici integrati | N/A |
SEC | Spanish | Sistema europeo de cuentas económicas integradas | Economics |
| Sec. | Dutch | Seconde | Meteorology & Standards |
| SEC 95 | French | Système européen de comptes 1995 | European Union, Economics |
| SEC 95 | Italian | Sistema europeo dei conti 1995 | European Union, Economics |
| SEC 95 | Portuguese | Sistema Europeu de Contas 1995 | European Union, Economics |
| SEC 95 | Spanish | Sistema Europeo de Cuentas 1995 | European Union, Economics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SecSynonyms: unsweet (adj), s (n), secant (n), second (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sec |
| English words defined with "sec": anomalistic year ♦ investment letter ♦ margarita ♦ One-valued function. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sec": Bemporad formula ♦ Catch your Hare, Celeron, CORSET, Cui bono? ♦ electronic data gathering,analysis,and retrieval ♦ Fangs, federally related institutions, flash radiography ♦ Gregorian Year ♦ instantaneous radiography ♦ LFC ♦ management/closely held shares ♦ ogg ♦ Pentium II ♦ scoping an exam, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, shelf offering, shelf registration, Single Edge Contact Cartridge, STP, supervising workman ♦ X-ray flash photography. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sec": Seck. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sec" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (dry), French (bald, barren, becoming dry, crude, curt, dried, dry, harsh, lean, neat, sear, short, straight), Romanian (bald, barren, cold, dried up, drily, dry, dull, empty, glacial, harshly, hollow, literal, stupid, useless). |
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Screenplays | Boys you're speed has gone from 4 min 8 sec to 2 min 3 sec and you've clearly gained some weight (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz) Moe's TavernYeah, just a sec, I'll check (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Wait a sec. Last week we had no dad and now we have two (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 4 min 3 sec (1999) Cinq à sec (1995) Triple sec (1986) Cinq à sec (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | With two reporters on the left, Stacie Davies, Doc Hatfield, Sec. Battie, and Connie Hatfield discuss the Steens designation. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |  | Rogue River - Near Rogue River Ranch, wild section. Just around bend from Ranch at old foot bridge looking east. Note: Timber sale in background in SW 1 14 08 Sec. 10. Credit: Unknown. |
 | David Blackston in the foreground with (L - R) Hal Bernton, Governor Kitzhaber, rancher Stacie Davies, and Sec. Babbitt in the background at Big Indian Gorge. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. |  | Sec. Daniels receiving check from Maj. Evelyn Wrench. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | N. A. - Northborough--Building side walls Sec. 10 - Sta. 422. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The President shaking hands from rear platform; Sec. Wilson, Sec. Hitchcock and Sec. Cortelyou with him--Alliance, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sierra, Justo, Sec. Public Instruction and Fine Arts, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Por la construccion del socialismo : ahora la universidad! : Eduardo Novoa, rector, Ricardo Lagos, sec. gral. ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fire" by Andy Taylor Commentary: "4 sec exposure of a fire." | "Make up" by Kahraman Insan Commentary: "Bulb picture of a make up sec. :)." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Burma | Authority: 3 U.S.C. 301; 31 U.S.C. 321(b); 50 U.S.C. 1601-1651, 1701-1706; sec. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulates the securities market in Sri Lanka. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Draft legislation is being prepared to give discretionary powers to the SEC to waive this obligation. (references) | |
Trade | Morocco | Privatized in 1996, the CSE is managed by 13 brokerage companies and regulated by an independent oversight commission similar to the SEC. (references) |
Mexico | On February 29, 2000 Mexico's Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Development (currently known as the Secretariat of the Economy or SEC) published in the Diario Oficial changes to its product certification policies and procedures for products subject to SEC issued NOMs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Mr. Secretary, we are going to take a break right now. But when we come back, we will ask Commerce Secretary Don Evans if he thinks SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt is back in trouble. |
Rush Limbaugh | Bush, who has opened up all records on this SEC business with Harken, and has asked everybody to look at all the paperwork when it was under investigation. |
Senator Carl Levin | I think if the president were wise, he would authorize the SEC to just turn over whatever records they have, get it over with. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Of the actual force in service under the present military establishment, the posts at which it is stationed, and the condition of each post, a report from the Sec of War which is now communicated will give a distinct idea. |
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| "Sec" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 54.40% of the time. "Sec" is used about 375 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 54.4% | 204 | 21,327 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.8% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Unclassified Items | 8.8% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 375 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | SEC Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "sec": triple sec. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sec": sec-amyl alcohol. | |
Ending with "sec": con-sec, Demi-sec. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sec"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), секунда (second, tick), не сладък, момент (instant, minute, moment, occasion, second, shake, trice, twinkling, while, whipstitch). (various references) | |
Chinese | 秒, 安全與交換委員會 (Securities and Exchange Communication). (various references) | |
Czech | sekunda, sekretář (cabinet, secretary), chvilièka (half a minute). (various references) | |
Danish | secondary emission control vidicon (SEC vidicon, secondary emission control vidicon), sec-butylacetat (sec-butyl acetate). (various references) | |
Dutch | sec-butylacetaat (sec-butyl acetate), vidicon met secundaire emissieregeling (SEC vidicon, secondary emission control vidicon). (various references) | |
Farsi | تلخ(درموردشراب), خطقاطع (Secant, Transverse), خشک (Abstract, Arid, Husky, Jejune, Mealy, Thirsty), ثانوی (Peripheral, Second, Secondary), دوم (Second). (various references) | |
Finnish | SEC-vidikoni (SEC vidicon, secondary emission control vidicon). (various references) | |
French | vidicon SEC (SEC vidicon, secondary emission control vidicon), vidicon à commande d'émission secondaire (SEC vidicon, secondary emission control vidicon), acétate de sec-butyle (sec-butyl acetate). (various references) | |
German | sekunde (second, tick), sek. (second, secondary). (various references) | |
Greek | βίντικον με έλεγχο δευτερογενούς εκπομπής (SEC vidicon, secondary emission control vidicon). (various references) | |
Hungarian | száraz (anhydrous, arid, bald, bare, cut and dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, dryish, fine, husky, lean, prosaic, prosy, sear, sere, stale, undamped), speciális különjárat (special event charter flight). (various references) | |
Italian | secondo (according, according to, after, aloud, as, by, in accordance with, latter, loud, noisy, per, second, sound, tick, under, unquiet), attimo (bit, instant, jiff, jiffy, moment, tick, trice). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jerky, parched, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sere, stale, thirsty, undamped). (various references) | |
Russian | сухой (arid, brut, dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, husky, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, sere), сек. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | suv (arid, dried, droughty, dry, lank), sekretarica (gal, secretary), opor (austere, pungent, sharp, tart). (various references) | |
Spanish | segundo (b, second, second best, under-), secretario (banyan, clerk, registrar, secretary, secretary bird). (various references) | |
Swedish | ögonblick (instand, instant, jiff, jiffy, moment). (various references) | |
Thai | วินาที (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) | |
Turkish | sek (dry, neat, sharp, straight), saniye (second, tick), dry, buruk (acetous, acid, acrid, sour, subacid, tart). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nguyên chất (pure, unmixed, whole), không pha ngọt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sec": secalose, secaloses, secant, secantly, secants, secateur, secateurs, secco, seccos, secede, seceded, seceder, seceders, secedes, seceding, secern, secerned, secerning, secerns, secession, secessionism, secessionisms, secessionist, secessionists, secessions, seclude, secluded, secludedly, secludedness, secludednesses, secludes, secluding, seclusion, seclusions, seclusive, seclusively, seclusiveness, seclusivenesses, secobarbital, secobarbitals, second, secondaries, secondarily, secondariness, secondarinesses, secondary, seconde, seconded, seconder, seconders, secondes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sec": cosec, cusec, kiloparsec, megaparsec, parsec. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sec": antisecrecy, antivivisection, antivivisectionist, antivivisectionists, bisect, bisected, bisecting, bisection, bisectional, bisectionally, bisections, bisector, bisectors, bisects, cheesecake, cheesecakes, cheesecloth, cheesecloths, consecrate, consecrated, consecrates, consecrating, consecration, consecrations, consecrative, consecrator, consecrators, consecratory, consecution, consecutions, consecutive, consecutively, consecutiveness, consecutivenesses, cosecant, cosecants, cosecs, cusecs, deconsecrate, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, deconsecrating, deconsecration, deconsecrations, desecrate, desecrated, desecrater, desecraters, desecrates, desecrating, desecration. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sec" (pronounced se"k) |
| 2 | -e" k | Beck, bedeck, check, deck, Exec, feck, Fleck, geck, heck, Keck, Lech, lek, neck, pech, Peck, rec, recheck, reck, spec, speck, trek, wreck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-s" | |
-1 letter: es. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-s" | |
+1 letter: aces, case, cees, cels, ceps, cess, cues, ecus, ices, pecs, recs, secs, sect, sice, spec, syce. | |
+2 letters: aches, acmes, acnes, acres, alecs, becks, bices, cades, cafes, cages, cakes, cames, canes, capes, cares, carse, cased, cases, caste, cates, cause, caves, cease, cedes, cedis, ceils, cells, celts, cense, cents, cepes, ceres, ceros, cesta, cesti, cetes, chase, chefs, chess, chest, chews, chose, cines, cires, cites, clefs, clews, close, clues, codes, coeds, cokes, coles, comes, cones, copes, copse, cores, corse, cosec, coses, coset, cosey, cosie, cotes, coves, coxes, cozes, cress, crest, crews, cries, cruse, cubes, cukes, cures, curse, cusec, cutes, cymes, daces, decks, decos, dices, duces, eches, echos, ecrus, epics, escar, escot, execs, faces, feces, fecks, fices, fyces, gecks, hecks, kecks, laces, luces, maces, mesic, necks, onces, paces, pechs, pecks, puces, races, recks, rices, saice, sauce, scale, scape, scare, scena, scend, scene, scent, scone, scope, score, scree, screw, scute, secco, sects, sepic, serac, sices, since, slice, sneck, socle, space, speck, specs, spice, sucre, sycee, syces, taces, vices, voces, yechs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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