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Ampere :: Ampere (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere..

Axis :: Axis (n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

Paraboloid :: Paraboloid (n.) The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Revise :: Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

Postentry :: Postentry (n.) A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake..

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis..

Reenthronement :: Reenthronement (n.) A second enthroning.

Refit :: Refit (v. t.) To fit out or supply a second time.

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary..

Second :: Second (n.) The second part in a concerted piece; -- often popularly applied to the alto.

Scaphocerite :: Scaphocerite (n.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.

Resale :: Resale (n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale..

Aftercrop :: Aftercrop (n.) A second crop or harvest in the same year.

Lap :: Lap (n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader..

Syncope :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows..

Refortification :: Refortification (n.) A fortifying anew, or a second time..

Teg :: Teg (n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal.

Secundo-geniture :: Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.

Semidemiquaver :: Semidemiquaver (n.) A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

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