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seconds
(mass) | seconds
- sekundy |
seconds
(encz) | seconds,sekundy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
SECONDS
(bouvier) | SECONDS, crim. law. Those persons who assist, direct and support others
engaged in fighting a duel.
2. As they are often much to blame in inciting the duellists to their
rash act, and as they are always assisting in the commission of the crime,
the laws generally punish them with severity but, in consequence of the
false ideas too generally entertained on the subject of honor, the are too
seldom enforced.
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secondsighted
(mass) | second-sighted
- jasnovidecký |
microseconds
(encz) | microseconds,mikrosekundy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
milliseconds
(encz) | milliseconds,milisekundy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
nanoseconds
(encz) | nanoseconds,nanosekundy |
the dying seconds
(encz) | the dying seconds, |
Independent seconds watch
(gcide) | Independent \In`de*pend"ent\, a. [Pref. in- not + dependent: cf.
F. ind['e]pendant.]
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1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not
relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly
independent.
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A dry, but independent crust. --Cowper.
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2. Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent
property.
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3. Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious;
self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
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4. Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence;
free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or
manner.
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5. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
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That obligation in general, under which we conceive
ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those
resources which the law provides for its own
enforcement. --R. P. Ward.
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6. (Eccl.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the
doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
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7. (Math.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to
value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or
functions.
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8. (U. S. Politics) Not bound by party; exercising a free
choice in voting with either or any party.
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Independent company (Mil.), one not incorporated in any
regiment.
Independent seconds watch, a stop watch having a second
hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc.,
for timing to a fraction of a second.
Independent variable. (Math.) See Dependent variable,
under Dependent.
Syn: Free; uncontrolled; separate; uncoerced; self-reliant;
bold; unconstrained; unrestricted.
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Second-sight
(gcide) | Second-sight \Sec"ond-sight`\, n.
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.
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He was seized with a fit of second-sight. --Addison.
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Nor less availed his optic sleight,
And Scottish gift of second-sight. --Trumbull.
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Second-sighted
(gcide) | Second-sighted \Sec"ond-sight`ed\, a.
Having the power of second-sight. [R.] --Addison.
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SECONDS
(bouvier) | SECONDS, crim. law. Those persons who assist, direct and support others
engaged in fighting a duel.
2. As they are often much to blame in inciting the duellists to their
rash act, and as they are always assisting in the commission of the crime,
the laws generally punish them with severity but, in consequence of the
false ideas too generally entertained on the subject of honor, the are too
seldom enforced.
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