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Meaning of "arcsec" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ARCSEC

arcsec  [ˈɑːksɛk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARCSEC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Arcsec is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ARCSEC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of arcsec in the English dictionary

The definition of arcsec in the dictionary is 1⁄3600 of a degree of an angle.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ARCSEC


cosec
ˈkəʊsɛk
cusec
ˈkjuːsɛk
demi-sec
ˌdɛmɪˈsɛk
kiloparsec
ˈkɪləˌpɑːˌsɛk
megaparsec
ˈmɛɡəˌpɑːsɛk
parsec
ˈpɑːˌsɛk
sec
sɛk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARCSEC

arcked
arcking
ARCM
arcmin
arco
arcograph
arcology
ARCS
arcs-boutants
arcsin
arcsine
arctan
arctangent
arctic
arctic char
arctic charr
Arctic Circle
arctic fox
arctic hare

WORDS THAT END LIKE ARCSEC

alec
Aztec
codec
Dec
ec
elec
fennec
Lautrec
Liberec
Malbec
Mixtec
on spec
pec
Quebec
rebec
rec
Sosnowiec
spec
tec
Toulouse-Lautrec

Synonyms and antonyms of arcsec in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «arcsec» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ARCSEC

Find out the translation of arcsec to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of arcsec from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «arcsec» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

角秒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

segundos de arco
570 millions of speakers

English

arcsec
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

arcsec
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

arcsec
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

угл.сек
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arcseg
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

arcsec
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

secondes d´arc
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Arcsec
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bogensekunden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

秒角
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

초각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Arcsec
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

arcsec
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

arcsec
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Arcsec
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

arcsec
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arcsec
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

arcsec
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кут.сек
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arcsec
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

arcsec
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

arcsec
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bågsek
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

arcsec
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of arcsec

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCSEC»

The term «arcsec» is regularly used and occupies the 57.608 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ARCSEC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «arcsec» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «arcsec» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about arcsec

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARCSEC»

Discover the use of arcsec in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to arcsec and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Contributions of Space Geodesy to Geodynamics: Earth Dynamics
sec ANNA- IB 7501 0.0082 50.12 CAMERA 30 4463 2 arcsec 4.5 arcsec BE-B 7354 0.0135 79.69 CAMERA 20 1739 2 arcsec 4.5 arcsec COURIER- IB 7469 0.0161 28.31 CAMERA 10 2476 2 arcsec 4.5 arcsec TELSTAR-1 9669 0.2429 44.79 ...
David E. Smith, Donald L. Turcotte, 1993
2
Contemporary Calculus II
D( f(x) ) (Chain Rule) and sec( arcsec(x) ) = x . Differentiating each side of sec( arcsec(x) ) = x , we have D( sec( arcsec(x) ) ) = D( x ) = 1. Evaluating each derivative, we have D( sec( arcsec(x) ) ) = sec( arcsec(x) ) ...
Dale Hoffman
3
The Hinode Mission
Spectro-Polarimeter (SP) Field of view along slit Spatial scan range Spatial sampling (slit) Spectral line and coverage Spectral resolution/sampling Measurement of polarization Polarization signal to noise 163.84 arcsec (N–S direction) 327.62 ...
Takashi Sakurai, 2008
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Instrumentation for Large Telescopes
More useful numbers for system performance are the "point source" NEFD, and the NEFD per square arcsec (for extended sources). With the pixel size defined by the diffraction limited image it should be possible to place most of the energy ...
Jose M. Rodriguez Espinosa, A. HERRERO (Ed), Francisco Sánchez, 1997
5
Calculus of a Single Variable
NOTE There is no common agreement on the definition of (or ) for negative values of When we defined the range of the arcsecant, we chose to preserve the reciprocal identity x. arccsc x arcsec x arcsec x arccos 1 x . For example, to evaluate ...
Ron Larson, Bruce Edwards, 2008
6
Planetary Atmospheric Electricity
François Leblanc, Karen Aplin, Yoav Yair, Giles Harrison, Jean Pierre Lebreton. 660 680 700 720 740 760 780 800 -360 -340 -320 -300 -280 -260 -240 -220 a r c s e c 1992-12-16 03:17:34.751 921216 SXT:031734 HXT:031610 660 680 700 ...
François Leblanc, Karen Aplin, Yoav Yair, 2008
7
An Introduction to Astrobiology
(c) From Figure 7.13, which is for a Jupiter-mass planet, fid, at 1 AU for a solar- mass star, is 0.0031 arcsec light-year. For an Earth-mass planet fld = 0.0031 arcsec light-year/318 = 9.7 x 10-6 arcsec light-year. At d- 1 light-year this would be 9.7 ...
Iain Gilmour, Mark A. Sephton, 2004
8
Calculus
NOTE There is no common agreement on the definition of (or ) for negative values of When we defined the range of the arcsecant, we chose to preserve the reciprocal identity x. arccsc x arcsec x For example, to evaluate you can write arcsec 2 ...
Ron Larson, Bruce Edwards, 2009
9
Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as ...
... Á10À6 arcsec 4.0959 Á10À7 arcsec 2.8159Á10À7 arcsec 5.6584Á10À8 arcsec 4.4389Á10À8 arcsec Angular resolution at 800 AU 5.2267 Á10À6 arcsec 3.3736Á10À7 arcsec 2.3194Á10À7 arcsec 4.6606Á10À8 arcsec 3.6561Á10À8 arcsec ...
Claudio Maccone, 2009
10
Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics
Table 2 Typical mirror shell error budget Image RMS diameter Allocation per Image RMS Surface error type sensitivity shell diameter arcsec Delta-delta radius 5.4 arcsec/micron rms 0.4 micron rms 2.2 Average radius P 0.04 arcsec/micron 2  ...
Peter von Ballmoos, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARCSEC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term arcsec is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Precision hollow core rotary actuators
Each of these precision hollow rotary actuators has: repetitive positioning accuracy of ±15 arcsec, runout of table surface ±0.015mm (0.00059"), ... «Aerospace Manufacturing and Design, Jul 15»
2
Starwatch: The July night sky
It fades from mag 0.3 to 0.4 as it edges westwards in E Libra and is 16 arcsec wide, set within stunning 40 arcsec rings at midmonth. Catch it to ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
Telescope Engineer, Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), Chile
The site is one of the finest on the planet in terms of natural seeing, enabling the Magellan telescopes to regularly achieve 0.5 arcsec FWHM ... «Optics.org, Jun 15»
4
Watching the Earth From Space
... close to Earth despite its 240,000-mile actual distance. Here the resolution is only 2 arcsec/pixel or about 10 times better than for NEAR. «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
5
Sapphire Optics
Surface finishes from 60-40 to 40-20 scratch-dig, flatness held to 0.5 fringes of HeNe and parallelism from 20 to 2 arcsec can be provided. «Photonics.com, Jun 15»
6
Starwatch: The June night sky
In a telescope, Jupiter is about 33 arcsec wide while Venus swells from 22 to 32 arcsec as its distance drops from 113 million to 77 million km. «The Guardian, May 15»
7
Astronomers MacGyver 10 off-the-shelf telephoto lenses into a …
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is capable of imaging extended structures to surface brightness levels below 30 mag/arcsec^2 in 10h ... «Mother Nature Network, May 15»
8
Magnetar near Galactic Centre supermassive black hole delivers …
... arcmin across (about 61 light-years); Inset image is about 14 arcsec across (1.8 light-years). Image credit: NASA/CXC/INAF/F.Coti Zelati et al. «Astronomy Now Online, May 15»
9
Strangulation as the primary mechanism for shutting down star …
... fraction of objects that have spectra in the parent photometric sample within the minimum SDSS fibre spacing of 55 arcsec of a given object. «Nature.com, May 15»
10
Debut for epitaxial InGaPBi
High-resolution X-ray diffraction produces peaks with a full width at half- maximum of 54 arcsec, 49 arcsec and 50 arcsec, for InGaPBi alloys ... «Compound Semiconductor, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Arcsec [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/arcsec>. May 2024 ».
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