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is a type of: time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periodssubtypes: leap second - a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotationhas: millisecond, msec - one thousandth (10^-3) of a second
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is a type of: chemical element, element - any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all mattersubstance meronym:
- sulfide, sulphide - a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive
- oil of vitriol, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid, vitriol - (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
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is a type of: cardinal compass point - one of the four main compass points
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is a type of: conductance unit - a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electrical charge
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is a type of: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speechbelongs to: latin alphabet, roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
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referred to in: thermodynamics - the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energyis a type of: physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactionssubtypes: conformational entropy - entropy calculated from the probability that a state could be reached by chance alonesame as: entropy, randomness
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