second : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
  C; coulomb.
  

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• . See def. 10 (above).

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• . See Hand, n., 10.

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• noun (computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem)
  bps.
  

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• noun the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second
  Hz; cycles/second; hertz; cps; cycle.
  

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• noun any terminated straight line can be projected indefinitely
  

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• adjective satellite the ordinal number of forty-two in counting order
  42nd.
  

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• noun 1,000,000,000 periods per second
  gigahertz; gigacycle; Gc; GHz.
  

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• a stop watch having a second hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc., for timing to a fraction of a second.

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• noun a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times
  law of equal areas; law of areas.
  
  • Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun

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• noun one thousand periods per second
  kc; kHz; kilocycle; kilohertz.
  

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• noun a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation
  

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• noun the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second; approximately 300,000 kilometers
  

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• (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a difference in pitch of a step.

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• noun one million periods per second
  megahertz; megacycle; MHz; Mc.
  

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• noun (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
  megaflop; MFLOP.
  

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• noun (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)
  MIPS.
  
  • 4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second

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• noun the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force
  Newton's second law; Newton's second law of motion.
  

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• noun the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force
  Newton's second law; Newton's second law of motion.
  

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• noun one part in thirty-two equal parts
  thirty-second; one-thirty-second.
  

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• noun (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
  Advent; Parousia; Second Advent; Second Coming.
  

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• noun any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent
  Adventism.
  

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• noun a member of Christian denomination that expects the imminent advent of Christ
  Adventist.
  

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• . See Adventist.

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• noun rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats
  upper balcony; peanut gallery; family circle.
  

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• noun a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
  straight man.
  
• noun someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
  second banana.
  

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• noun the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball
  
• noun the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
  second.
  

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• noun (baseball) the person who plays second base
  second baseman.
  

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• noun battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
  Ypres; battle of Ypres.
  

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• noun the competitor who finishes second
  runner-up.
  

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• noun mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
  dotage; senility.
  

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• noun not the highest rank in a classification
  
• noun not the highest quality in a classification
  
• noun a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations
  economy class; cabin class.
  
• adverb by second class conveyance
  
  • we traveled second class

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• noun (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
  Advent; Parousia; Second Advent; Second Coming.
  

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• noun (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
  Advent; Parousia; Second Advent; Second Coming.
  

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• noun the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
  Constantinople.
  

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• noun the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church
  Lyons.
  

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• noun the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
  Nicaea.
  

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• noun a child of a first cousin
  

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• the child of a cousin.

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• noun the cranial nerve that serves the retina
  optic nerve; optic tract; nervus opticus.
  

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• noun a Crusade from 1145 to 1147 that failed because of internal disagreements among the crusaders and led to the loss of Jerusalem in 1187
  

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• noun the uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel
  main deck.
  

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• (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; called also middle ground, or middle distance. R.

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• noun Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
  Charles Grey; Grey.
  

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• noun English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)
  Pitt the Younger; Pitt; William Pitt.
  

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• noun British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)
  North; Frederick North.
  

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• noun the imperial government of Napoleon III in France from 1852-1870
  

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• noun the second New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle
  II John.
  

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• noun a New Testament book containing the second epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth
  II Corinthians; Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians.
  

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• noun a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's second epistle to the Thessalonians
  II Thessalonians; Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians.
  

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• noun a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's second epistle to Timothy; contains advice on pastoral matters
  II Timothy; Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy.
  

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• noun the second New Testament book traditionally attributed to Saint Peter the Apostle
  II Peter.
  

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• noun a New Testament book containing the second epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth
  II Corinthians; Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians.
  

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• noun a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's second epistle to the Thessalonians
  II Thessalonians; Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians.
  

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• noun a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's second epistle to Timothy; contains advice on pastoral matters
  II Timothy; Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy.
  

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• noun the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain
  Lords Temporal.
  

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• (Eng.), the House of Peers.

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• noun someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
  second banana.
  
• noun a secondary role or function
  
  • he hated to play second fiddle to anyone

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• noun the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
  second.
  
  • he had to shift down into second to make the hill

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• a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.

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• noun a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting
  

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• noun the second of two halves of play
  last half.
  

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• noun an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'
  
  • he could learn at second hand from books
• noun hand marking seconds on a timepiece
  
• adverb from a source of previously owned goods
  
  • I prefer to buy second hand

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• the hand which marks the seconds on the dial of a watch or a clock.

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• . See under Intention.

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• noun the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
  thigh.
  

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• noun the second council of the Western Church in 1139 which put an end to the dogmatic errors of Arnold of Brescia
  

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• noun the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force
  Newton's second law; Newton's second law of motion.
  

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• noun a law stating that mechanical work can be derived from a body only when that body interacts with another at a lower temperature; any spontaneous process results in an increase of entropy
  

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• noun a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank
  2nd lieutenant.
  

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• noun English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782)
  Rockingham; Charles Watson-Wentworth.
  

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• noun the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin
  

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• noun a mortgage that is subordinate to a first mortgage
  

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• noun acquired behavior that is practiced so long it seems innate
  

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• noun the second division into which the play of a game is divided
  

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• noun pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur
  

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• noun the product of two equal terms
  square.
  
  • nine is the second power of three
  • gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance

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• noun the second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US)
  

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• noun the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from 1871 to 1919)
  Hohenzollern empire.
  

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• noun (baseball) the person who plays second base
  second baseman.
  

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• noun apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
  ESP; extrasensory perception; clairvoyance; E.S.P..
  

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• noun the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
  reticulum.
  

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• in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.

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• noun a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game
  

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• noun thinking again about a choice previously made
  rethink; afterthought; reconsideration.
  
  • he had second thoughts about his purchase

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• consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration.

  On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. Dickens.

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• noun time period extending from the 13th to the 27th week of gestation
  

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• noun the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms
  Vatican II.
  

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• noun renewed energy or strength to continue an undertaking
  
  • She had dinner and got a second wind to finish painting
  • the employers, initially taken by surprise at the pace of developments, regained their second wind
• noun the return of relatively easy breathing after initial exhaustion during continuous exertion
  

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• noun a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  World War 2; World War II.
  

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• adjective satellite next to the best
  
  • his second-best bed
• adverb in second place
  
  • he came off second-best

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• adjective satellite of inferior status or quality
  
  • a second-class citizen
  • second-class accommodations

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Sec"ond-class` adjective

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1. Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

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• . See under File.

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• noun burn causing blisters on the skin and superficial destruction of the dermis
  

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• verb attempt to anticipate or predict
  outguess.
  
• verb evaluate or criticize with hindsight
  

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• noun overheard conversation (especially overheard cellphone conversation)
  

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• noun a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices
  thriftshop.
  

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• noun someone who relieves a commander
  

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• noun a finish in second place (as in a race)
  runner-up finish.
  

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• adjective satellite moderate to inferior in quality
  mediocre.
  
  • they improved the quality from mediocre to above average

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Sec"ond-rate` adjective

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1. Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.

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• noun a person of second-rate ability or value
  mediocrity.
  
  • a team of aging second-raters
  • shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him

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Sec"ond-sight` noun

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1. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.

   he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison.

   Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second-sight. Trumbull.

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• adjective satellite foreseeing the future
  clairvoyant; precognitive.
  

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Sec"ond-sight`ed adjective

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1. Having the power of second-sight. Addison.

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• adjective satellite being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team
  second-string.
  
  • a second-string pitcher

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• noun an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
  substitute; reserve.
  
• adjective satellite being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team
  second-string.
  
  • a second-string pitcher

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• adjective satellite used of the second year in United States high school or college
  sophomore.
  
  • the sophomore class
  • his sophomore year

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• noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  instant; wink; blink of an eye; flash; New York minute; twinkling; jiffy; heartbeat; trice.
  
  • if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

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• noun a second hand that is mounted on the same center as the hour and minute hand and is read on the minutes
  sweep hand.
  

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• condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11.

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• noun one part in thirty-two equal parts
  thirty-second; one-thirty-second.
  
• adjective satellite the ordinal number of thirty-two in counting order
  32nd.
  

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Thir"ty-sec`ond adjective

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1. Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note
  demisemiquaver.
  

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• (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.

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• noun one part in thirty-two equal parts
  thirty-second; one-thirty-second.
  

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• (Surg.), to unite after suppuration.

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• to take a leading or a subordinate part. Colloq.

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• noun (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
  teraflop.
  

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Twelfth"-sec`ond noun

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1. (Physics) A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.

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• adjective satellite coming next after the twenty-first in position
  22nd.
  

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• . (Surg.) See To heal by the first, ∨ second, intention, under Intention.

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• noun a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States
  Shakers.
  

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• noun a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
  joule; J.
  

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