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单词 s
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The text message arrived on Koa Farmer’s phone as Penn State ’s third-year sophomore slept the morning after Christmas.
Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017)
In row after row, the L.E.D.s shining these colors call to mind strings of Christmas lights.
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
An air siren heralded Booker T.’s entrance.
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
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n 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
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sec, second
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
time unit, unit of time
a unit for measuring time periods
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n the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet
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S
alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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Iraq’s military, aided by air support from the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State, in October began a long-awaited offensive on Mosul.
Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017)
“They’re answering the public criticisms of U.S. experts,” said Joshua Pollack, editor of the U.S.-based Non proliferation Review.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
In central Mexico’s Mezquital Valley, new pick-up trucks bounce along unpaved roads and U.S.-style houses are springing up alongside cornfields.
Reuters(Jan 02, 2017)
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n the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet
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s
alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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n the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees
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due south, south, southward
cardinal compass point
one of the four main compass points
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n an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
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atomic number 16, sulfur, sulphur
brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur
an old name for sulfur
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 matter
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n (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
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entropy, randomness
conformational entropy
entropy calculated from the probability that a state could be reached by chance alone
physical property
any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
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n a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
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mho, reciprocal ohm, siemens
conductance unit
a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electrical charge
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