second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: seconds
form: s
form: sec
form: s
form: sec
form: arcsec
form: "
Etymology: From Middle English secunde, seconde, borrowed from Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond
text: For this reason, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that spinach be cooked at 160º for 15 seconds, which kills potentially fatal bacteria.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
related: word: mul:s
word: mul:sec
glosses: A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
synonyms: arcsecond
second of arc
glosses: A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
examples: text: I'll be there in a second.
text: Exposure of aluminum to the air causes a near instantaneous oxide. So rapid is the oxidation that it is safe to say you never see aluminum that has no oxide on its surface... The initial exposure of aluminum, regardless of alloy, will form a thin oxide film on the surface the second it is exposed.
ref: 2020, L. William Zahner, “Corrosion Characteristics”, in Aluminum Surfaces: a Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:
synonyms: instant
jiffy
sec
glosses: A short, indeterminate amount of time.
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word: attosecond
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word: centimeter-gram-second
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word: centisecond
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word: cumec
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word: cusec
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word: cycle per second
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word: decasecond
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word: decisecond
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word: dying seconds
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word: ephemeris second
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word: every second
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word: exasecond
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word: femtosecond
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word: five-second rule
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word: foot per second
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word: foot-pound-second
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word: frame per second
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word: gigasecond
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word: hectosecond
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word: hot second
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word: intersecond
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word: joule-second
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word: just a second
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word: kilosecond
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word: leap second
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word: light second
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word: lumen second
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word: megasecond
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word: meter-kilogram-second
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word: meter-tonne-second
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word: metre per second
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word: microsecond
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word: millisecond
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word: multisecond
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word: nanosecond
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word: New York second
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word: ohnosecond
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word: parallax second
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word: petasecond
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word: picosecond
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word: quectosecond
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word: ronnasecond
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word: rontosecond
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word: Saybolt universal second
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word: second hand
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word: split-second
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word: split second
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word: subsecond
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word: ten-second car
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word: ten-second rule
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word: terasecond
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word: thirty-second rest
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word: three-second rule
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word: three seconds rule
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word: two-second rule
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word: two seconds to black
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word: watt-second
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word: yoctosecond
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word: yottasecond
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word: zeptosecond
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word: zettasecond
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word: μsecond