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Ampere second
Ampere minute Amp[`e]re minute and Ampere second Amp[`e]re
second are sometimes similarly used. Ampere turn Amp[`e]re
turn (Elec.)
A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a
coiled conductor) into one amp[`e]re of current; thus, a
conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of
half an amp[`e]re is said to have 21/2 amp[`e]re turns. The
magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of
its amp[`e]re turns.
At second handSecondhand Sec"ond*hand`, a.
1. Not original or primary; received from another.
They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge.
--Locke.
2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a
secondhand book, garment.
At second hand. See Hand, n., 10. Major secondMajor Ma"jor, [L. major, compar. of magnus great: cf. F.
majeur. Cf. Master, Mayor, Magnitude, More, a.]
1. Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part
of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major
part of the territory.
2. Of greater dignity; more important. --Shak.
3. Of full legal age. [Obs.]
4. (Mus.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in
difference of pitch from another tone.
Major axis (Geom.), the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2.
Major key (Mus.), a key in which one and two, two and
three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major
seconds, and three and four, and seven and eight, make
minor seconds.
Major offense (Law), an offense of a greater degree which
contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery include
assault.
Major premise (Logic), that premise of a syllogism which
contains the major term.
Major scale (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has
semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and
fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the
major mode, of which the third is major. See Scale, and
Diatonic.
Major second (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a
difference in pitch of a step.
Major sixth (Mus.), a sixth of four steps and a half step.
In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are
major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from
minors, are more cheerful.
Major term (Logic), that term of a syllogism which forms
the predicate of the conclusion.
Major third (Mus.), a third of two steps. second 7. (Mach.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of
machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender
connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine;
especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes
and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate
disconnection.
8. (Brewing) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which
fermentation is carried on.
Hypostatic union (Theol.) See under Hypostatic.
Latin union. See under Latin.
Legislative Union (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain
and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801.
Union, or Act of Union (Eng. Hist.), the act by which
Scotland was united to England, or by which the two
kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707.
Union by the first, or second, intention. (Surg.) See
To heal by the first, or second, intention, under
Intention.
Union down (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by
reversing the flag, or turning its union downward.
Union jack. (Naut.) See Jack, n., 10.
Union joint. (Mech.)
(a) A joint formed by means of a union.
(b) A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T.
Syn: Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance;
coalition; combination; confederacy.
Usage: Union, Unity. Union is the act of bringing two or
more things together so as to make but one, or the
state of being united into one. Unity is a state of
simple oneness, either of essence, as the unity of
God, or of action, feeling, etc., as unity of design,
of affection, etc. Thus, we may speak of effecting a
union of interests which shall result in a unity of
labor and interest in securing a given object.
One kingdom, joy, and union without end.
--Milton.
[Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his
image multiplied. In unity defective; which
requires Collateral love, and dearest amity.
--Milton. Second AdventistsAdventist Ad"vent*ist, n.
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look
for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also
Second Adventists. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Second childhoodChildhood Child"hood (ch[imac]ld"h[oo^]d), n. [AS. cildh[=a]d;
cild child + -h[=a]d. See Child, and -hood.]
1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are
children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
I have walked before you from my childhood. --1.
Sam. xii. 2.
2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]
The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W.
Scott.
3. The commencement; the first period.
The childhood of our joy. --Shak.
Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable
from old age. Second intentionIntention In*ten"tion, n. [F. intention, L. intentio. See
Intend, and cf. Intension.]
1. A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind
toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of
attention; earnestness.
Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness,
and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. --Locke.
2. A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain
thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New
York.
Hell is paved with good intentions. --Johnson.
3. The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end;
aim.
In [chronical distempers], the principal intention
is to restore the tone of the solid parts.
--Arbuthnot.
4. The state of being strained. See Intension. [Obs.]
5. (Logic) Any mental apprehension of an object.
First intention (Logic), a conception of a thing formed by
the first or direct application of the mind to the
individual object; an idea or image; as, man, stone.
Second intention (Logic), a conception generalized from
first intuition or apprehension already formed by the
mind; an abstract notion; especially, a classified notion,
as species, genus, whiteness.
To heal by the first intention (Surg.), to cicatrize, as a
wound, without suppuration.
To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after
suppuration.
Syn: Design; purpose; object; aim; intent; drift; purport;
meaning. See Design. SecondariesSecondary Sec"ond*a*ry, n.; pl. Secondaries.
1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary
place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the
chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the
city of London.
Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary. --Shak.
2. (Astron.)
(a) A secondary circle.
(b) A satellite.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A secondary quill. Secondarily
Secondarily Sec"ond*a*ri*ly, adv.
1. In a secondary manner or degree.
2. Secondly; in the second place. [Obs.]
God hath set some in the church, first apostels,
secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. --1 Cor.
xii. 28.
SecondarySecondary Sec"ond*a*ry, n.; pl. Secondaries.
1. One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary
place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the
chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the
city of London.
Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary. --Shak.
2. (Astron.)
(a) A secondary circle.
(b) A satellite.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A secondary quill. SecondaryReptilian Rep*til"i*an (-an), a.
Belonging to the reptiles.
Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time
comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods,
and distinguished as that era in which the class of
reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also
the Secondary or Mezozoic age. Secondary roots 2. An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as
produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the
root crop.
3. That which resembles a root in position or function, esp.
as a source of nourishment or support; that from which
anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the
root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
Specifically:
(a) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a
stem.
They were the roots out of which sprang two
distinct people. --Locke.
(b) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms
employed in language; a word from which other words
are formed; a radix, or radical.
(c) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought
about; the source. ``She herself . . . is root of
bounty.' --Chaucer.
The love of money is a root of all kinds of
evil. --1 Tim. vi.
10 (rev. Ver.)
(d) (Math.) That factor of a quantity which when
multiplied into itself will produce that quantity;
thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into
itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
(e) (Mus.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone
from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is
composed. --Busby.
(f) The lowest place, position, or part. ``Deep to the
roots of hell.' --Milton. ``The roots of the
mountains.' --Southey.
4. (Astrol.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
When a root is of a birth yknowe [known]. --Chaucer.
A["e]rial roots. (Bot.)
(a) Small roots emitted from the stem of a plant in the
open air, which, attaching themselves to the bark of
trees, etc., serve to support the plant.
(b) Large roots growing from the stem, etc., which descend
and establish themselves in the soil. See Illust. of
Mangrove.
Multiple primary root (Bot.), a name given to the numerous
roots emitted from the radicle in many plants, as the
squash.
Primary root (Bot.), the central, first-formed, main root,
from which the rootlets are given off.
Root and branch, every part; wholly; completely; as, to
destroy an error root and branch.
Root-and-branch men, radical reformers; -- a designation
applied to the English Independents (1641). See Citation
under Radical, n., 2.
Root barnacle (Zo["o]l.), one of the Rhizocephala.
Root hair (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found
on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of
the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes.
--Gray.
Root leaf (Bot.), a radical leaf. See Radical, a., 3
(b) .
Root louse (Zo["o]l.), any plant louse, or aphid, which
lives on the roots of plants, as the Phylloxera of the
grapevine. See Phylloxera.
Root of an equation (Alg.), that value which, substituted
for the unknown quantity in an equation, satisfies the
equation.
Root of a nail
(Anat.), the part of a nail which is covered by the skin.
Root of a tooth (Anat.), the part of a tooth contained in
the socket and consisting of one or more fangs.
Secondary roots (Bot.), roots emitted from any part of the
plant above the radicle.
To strike root, To take root, to send forth roots; to
become fixed in the earth, etc., by a root; hence, in
general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to
increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. ``The
bended twigs take root.' --Milton. Second-class
Second-class Sec"ond-class`, a.
Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior;
second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class
passage.
second-class scoutBoy scout Boy scout
Orig., a member of the ``Boy Scouts,' an organization of
boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to
promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of
civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their
interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical
activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar
organizations, which are now worldwide. In ``The Boy Scouts
of America' the local councils are generally under a scout
commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each
in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts
each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class
scout, and first-class scout. Seconder
Seconder Sec"ond*er, n.
One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms,
moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a
motion.
SecondhandSecondhand Sec"ond*hand`, a.
1. Not original or primary; received from another.
They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge.
--Locke.
2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a
secondhand book, garment.
At second hand. See Hand, n., 10. Secondly
Secondly Sec"ond*ly, adv.
In the second place.
Secondo
Secondo Se*con"do (?; It.), n. [It.] (Mus.)
The second part in a concerted piece.
Second-rate
Second-rate Sec"ond-rate`, a.
Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a
second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.
--Dryden.
Second-sight
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.
he was seized with a fit of second-sight. --Addison.
Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift
of second-sight. --Trumbull.
Second-sighted
Second-sighted Sec"ond-sight`ed, a.
Having the power of second-sight. --Addison.
Thirty-secondThirty-second Thir"ty-sec`ond, a.
Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is
divided.
Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a
whole note; a demi-semiquaver. Thirty-second noteThirty-second Thir"ty-sec`ond, a.
Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is
divided.
Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a
whole note; a demi-semiquaver. To heal by the second intentionIntention In*ten"tion, n. [F. intention, L. intentio. See
Intend, and cf. Intension.]
1. A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind
toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of
attention; earnestness.
Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness,
and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. --Locke.
2. A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain
thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New
York.
Hell is paved with good intentions. --Johnson.
3. The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end;
aim.
In [chronical distempers], the principal intention
is to restore the tone of the solid parts.
--Arbuthnot.
4. The state of being strained. See Intension. [Obs.]
5. (Logic) Any mental apprehension of an object.
First intention (Logic), a conception of a thing formed by
the first or direct application of the mind to the
individual object; an idea or image; as, man, stone.
Second intention (Logic), a conception generalized from
first intuition or apprehension already formed by the
mind; an abstract notion; especially, a classified notion,
as species, genus, whiteness.
To heal by the first intention (Surg.), to cicatrize, as a
wound, without suppuration.
To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after
suppuration.
Syn: Design; purpose; object; aim; intent; drift; purport;
meaning. See Design. Twelfth-secondTwelfth-second Twelfth"-sec`ond, n. (Physics)
A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such
that 10^12 (ten trillion) of these units make one second. Unseconded
Unseconded Un*sec"ond*ed, a.
1. Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted; as, the
motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded.
2. Not exemplified a second time. [Obs.] ``Strange and
unseconded shapes of worms.' --Sir T. Browne.
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