SEC

SEC

abbr.

Securities and Exchange Commission

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sec ¹  (sk)

adj.

Dry. Used of wines, especially champagne.

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[French, from Old French, from Latin siccus.]

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sec ²

abbr.

secant

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sec ¹

Adjective

(of wines) dry [French]

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sec ²

Noun

Informal a second (of time): hang on a sec

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sec ³ secant

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sec

Abbreviation of secant

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sec - 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites s, second time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods min, minute - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" 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 rotation millisecond, msec - one thousandth (10^-3) of a second
	2.	sec - ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle secant circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle
	3.	SEC - an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors Securities and Exchange Commission independent agency - an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
Adj.	1.	sec - (of champagne) moderately dry         unsweet dry - (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"

Translations

SEC n abbr (US) (= Securities and Exchange Commission) → comisión de operaciones bursátiles

SEC n abbr (US) (= Securities and Exchange Commission) → COB f (Commission des opérations de Bourse)

SEC (US) n abbr (= Securities and Exchange Commission) → amerikanische Börsenaufsichtsbehörde

SEC n abbr (US) (= Securities and Exchange Commission) → commissione di controllo sulle operazioni in Borsa