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The word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part", and "second" from pars minuta secunda or "second small part". Angular measure also uses sexagesimal units; there, it is the degree that is subdivided into minutes and seconds, while in time, it is the hour.
A day is unity, or 1, and any fraction thereof can be shown with digits to the right of the hexadecimal separator.So the day begins at midnight with .0000 and one hexadecimal second after midnight is .0001.
CSV Apeldoorn, a Netherlands football club; Christian Social People's Party, a political party in Luxembourg; Clerics of Saint Viator, a Roman Catholic institute; Community Service Volunteers, a British charity; Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (South American Volleyball Confederation)
Disintegrations per minute (dpm) and disintegrations per second (dps) are measures of the activity of the source of radioactivity. The SI unit of radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is equivalent to one disintegration per second. This unit should not be confused with cps, which is the number of counts received by an instrument from the source.
A Berlese funnel or Berlese trap is a device used to extract desiccation-intolerant invertebrates from samples of soil or leaf litter. It works by creating a desiccation gradient over the sample such that mobile organisms will move away from the dry environment and fall into a collecting vessel, where they are preserved for examination.