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Sec   /sɛk/   Listen
Sec

noun
1.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.  Synonyms: s, second.
2.
Ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle.  Synonym: secant.
3.
An independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors.  Synonym: Securities and Exchange Commission.
adjective
1.
(of champagne) moderately dry.  Synonym: unsweet.



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"Sec" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sec. 1. All the offices now provided by law with within the City and County of New-York, shall be put ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 1, Saturday, April 2, 1870 • Various

... my good stripling, I am ashamed to see you. I have done nothing for you. I sent a humble message to ask to see the Archbishop, but had no answer, and by-and-by, when I stirred again, who should come to sec me but young Bertram Selby, and "Kinswoman," said he, "you had best keep quiet. The Archbishop hath asked me whether rumours were sooth that yours was scarce a regular Priory." The squire stood up for me and said, as became one of the family, that an outlying cell, where there were ill ...
— The Herd Boy and His Hermit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... was so sharp a sound among the muffled noises that it stung the ear like a whip-lash. It came from the dark mass of the Louvre, from somewhere beyond the Grand Jardin. It was followed instantly by a hubbub far down the Rue St. Honore and a glare kindled where that street joined the Rue d'Arbre Sec. ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan

... purport to state some of the details was brought into action in 1847. In this constitution there is a provision that it shall be overhauled and remodeled, if needs be, once in twenty years. Article XIII. Sec. 2. "At the general election to be held in 1806, and in each twentieth year thereafter, the question, 'Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?' shall be decided by the electors ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope

... which might be hereafter granted by the King for settlement; and (2) gave authority for the erection of "parsonages or rectories, according to the establishment of the Church of England," to be endowed out of the lands so allotted, etc. (Sec. 38). ...
— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson


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