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Sec (Noun)

An independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors.

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.

The company submitted its IPO documents to the SEC for review.
Investors relied on the SEC to enforce insider trading laws.
She had always been fascinated by the way the SEC policed corporate accounting.
When allegations of stock price manipulation arose, the company quickly disclosed the details to the SEC.
Only securities approved by the SEC can be listed on a US exchange.

Ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle.

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.

The secant of an angle in a right-angled triangle is defined as the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to the length of the adjacent side.
In a right-angled triangle, the sec of an angle is the reciprocal of the cosine of that angle.
The sec of 30 degrees is 2, since the ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side in a 30-60-90 triangle is 2:1.
To find the sec of an angle, you can use the formula sec(x) = 1/cos(x), where x is the angle in question.
The sec of an angle is often used in trigonometry to solve problems involving right-angled triangles.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.