SEP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sep mean? 

• SEP (noun)
  The noun SEP has 1 sense:

1. the month following August and preceding October

  Familiarity information: SEP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following August and preceding October

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Sep; Sept; September

Hypernyms ("Sep" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Sep"):

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 ("Sep" 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 

Circulating anti-neuronal antibodies (anti-Hu; also called ANNA 1) and small cell lung carcinomas are frequently associated with this condition. (From Pathologe 1997 Sep;18(5):406-10; J Int Neuropsychol Soc 1996 Sep;2(5):460-6; Brain 1997 Jun;120(Pt 6):923-8)

(Limbic Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)