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Answer for the clue "Unit of Time ", 6 letters:
second

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Second \Sec"ond\, n. One who, or that which, follows, or comes after; one next and inferior in place, time, rank, importance, excellence, or power. Man An angel's second, nor his second long. --Young. One who follows or attends another for his support ...

Usage examples of second.

For a split second Abie was certain he was looking directly into her eyes as the volume of the chanting increased.

If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.

The second is when he has abjured al heresy in general, and yet lapses into another heresy, even if he has never before been suspected or accused of that heresy.

Even the news that the Yorktown, after quelling the fires and resuming fleet speed, had been torpedoed in a second attack, was again ablaze and listing, and might be abandoned, could be taken in stride.

He was ably seconded by General Thomas West Sherman, commanding the troops.

In a second she was giving her own breakfast to Abo, who neither thanked her or acknowledged her presence.

Malink was hurling a string of native curses at Abo, who looked as if he would burst into tears any second.

Second, there are so many embryos available from other sources, there is no need to deal with aborted embryos.

In the second case, in a youth of sixteen, death occurred after washing out a deep abscess of the nates with the same solution.

There were eight runners that day, a pleasant sized field, and Abseil was second favourite.

If Glenn Abies is murdered, or if any harm comes to his wife or any one of his five innocent children then in the name of all that is Christian and Good, the second American Revolution will begin right here.

Very little careful examination would have sufficed to find, in the second section of the very first article of the Constitution, the names of every one of the thirteen then existent States distinctly mentioned, with the number of representatives to which each would be entitled, in case of acceding to the Constitution, until a census of their population could be taken.

Achieving this end required that Einstein forge a second link in the chain uniting gravity and accelerated motion: the curvature of space and time, to which we now turn.

His field of vision contracted until it embraced only the clock and the accelerometer, fifteen g, and four hundred and eighty seconds to go.

Very well, then, his name isDarian Acer, second son of the earl ofChesley .