(music) A note that has 1/32 the length of a whole note.

plural of thirty-second note

second-degree murder

(engineering) A measure of a body's resistance to bending; second moment of area.

(engineering) A measure of a body's resistance to bending.

(sciences) A system of units formerly used in physics (now replaced by the SI system), in which the basic units of length, mass and time were respectively centimeter, gram, and second.

A system of units used in physics and other sciences, often abbreviated as mks. It is the basis of the SI system of international units.

(law, chiefly US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form defined as less serious than first-degree murder; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves second-degree murder being intentional but not premeditated.

plural of second-degree burn

(databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which it is in first normal form and every non-key attribute is dependent upon the entire primary key.