SEC

sec, unsweet

(adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry

secant, sec

(noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle

second, sec

(noun) 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d’Unites

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

SEC

Initialism of Securities and Exchange Commission.

Abbreviation of Southeastern Conference, a college athletics conference

Anagrams

• CES, CEs, CSE, ECS, ESC, Esc, SCE, sce.

Etymology

Abbreviation of second.

Noun

sec (plural sec or secs)

(colloquial) Second, 1/60 of a minute.

(colloquial) Abbreviation of second. (A short indeterminate period of time.)

Anagrams

• CES, CEs, CSE, ECS, ESC, Esc, SCE, sce.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

9 May 2025

RIGHT

(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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