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Desired
/dɪˈzaɪəd/Strongly wished for, requested, or coveted; sought after with earnest longing.
“The new policy achieved the desired effect of boosting workplace collaboration.”
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Origin: From Old French desirer, from Latin desiderare ("to long for, wish for, demand").
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/wʌn ˈsɛk.ənd/
[noun] The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
/wʌn pɔɪnt ˈsɛv.ən.ti ˈsɛv.ən ˈaʊərz/
[noun] A specific duration of time equal to one hour and forty-six minutes and twelve seconds.
/tɛn tuː ðə naɪθ ˈpaʊ.ər/
[noun] The cardinal number equal to one thousand million (1,000,000,000), expressed in scientific notation as 10^9.
/wʌn ˈhʌndrəd ænd sɪks ˈmɪnɪts/
[noun] A specific duration of time equivalent to one hour and forty-six minutes.
/wʌn ˈhʌndrəd sɪks ˈmɪnɪts ˈiːkwəlz haʊ ˈmɛni ˈaʊərz/
[idiom] A mathematical inquiry seeking the conversion of a specific duration of 106 minutes into the standard unit of hours, resulting in 1 hour and 46 minutes or approximately 1.77 hours.
/wʌn ˈhʌn.drəd sɪks ˈmɪn.ɪts ɪn ˈsɛk.əndz/
[noun] A specific duration of time equivalent to 6,360 seconds, calculated by multiplying 106 by the 60 seconds contained within a single minute.
/tuː tuː ðə ˈpaʊər əv ˈtwenti faɪv/
[noun] A mathematical expression representing the number 2 multiplied by itself 25 times, resulting in the integer 33,554,432.
/tuː tuː ðə ˈtwɛnti-fɪfθ ˈpaʊər/
[noun] The mathematical value resulting from multiplying the number two by itself twenty-five times, equal to 33,554,432.
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