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What is an arcsecond?

What is an arcsecond? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A unit of angle; 1/60th of an arcminute, or 1/3600th of a degree.
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The CORNISH survey has used the VLA to map 110 square degrees of the northern inner Galactic plane in the 5 GHz coninuum with 1 arcsecond resolution.
This rotation was accomplished with a closed-loop motion control system that had a repeatability of approximately one arcsecond.
Seemingly plausible surface geometry can lead to situations where the two definitions of angle differ by as much as a few tenths of an arcsecond.
Our measurements have a precision of 27 millionths of an arcsecond per year.
Further, deposition uniformity was greatly improved with crystal quality distributions being reduced closer to the 55 arcsecond X-Ray rocking curve width previously reported.
The nondispersivity condition therefore requires the sample to be aligned with arcsecond precision.

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