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SEPT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People descended from a common ancestor
Example:
his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Synonyms:
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("sept" is a kind of...):
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sept"):
people (members of a family line)
homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))
house (aristocratic family line)
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
gens; name (family based on male descent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The month following August and preceding October
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Sept" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Sept"):
Michaelmas; Michaelmas Day; September 29 (honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)
Labor Day (first Monday in September in the United States and Canada)
Citizenship Day; September 17 (celebrated in the United States)
American Indian Day (US: the 4th Friday in September)
mid-September (the middle part of September)
autumnal equinox; fall equinox; September equinox (September 22)
9-11; 9/11; Sep 11; Sept. 11; September 11 (the day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs)
Holonyms ("Sept" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 7:24 p.m. PDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere as never done before.
(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)
Gracechurch street, Sept. 6.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The ozone hole reached its peak extent on Sept. 11, covering an area about two and a half times the size of the United States, and then declined through the remainder of September and into October.
(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)
I remember it was written from Weymouth, and dated Sept. 28th—and began, 'My dear Madam,' but I forget how it went on; and it was signed 'F. C. Weston Churchill.'—I remember that perfectly.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
On Sept. 22, 2017, scientists using IceCube detected signs of a neutrino striking the Antarctic ice with energy of about 300 trillion electron volts—more than 45 times the energy achievable in the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.
(NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole, NASA)
The image was taken from an altitude of 167 feet (51 meters) above the comet's surface by the spacecraft's OSIRIS wide-angle camera on Sept. 30.
(Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft, NASA)
Both flares erupted from an active region labeled AR 2673, which also produced a mid-level solar flare on Sept. 4, 2017.
(Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO, NASA)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planet's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15.
(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)
