second
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- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- Specialized
- Within seconds, all hell breaks loose.
- 30 seconds
- 10 seconds
- 5 seconds
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Watch on YouTubeWhat they want is value per second, not seconds of value.
- What they want is value per second, not seconds of value.
- And we have to do this thousands of times a a second throughout the year.
- So and we want to try to have the highest frames per second possible.
- Chemical reactions per second per second like I am.
Examples
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The symbols in either condition were displayed for 20 seconds before the screen turned red.
Academic text (2012) -
They arrive about two seconds before the light does.
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OK, OK, so give me two seconds to do this.
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You have three seconds to tell me where you got it.
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Two seconds on the clock.
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I'll give you 10 seconds to hand over Earl Williams.
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We probably got about 60 seconds until they mobilize.
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Jorge was allowed to play with each item for 30-60 seconds before the assessment began.
Academic text (2013) -
Children listened to two prerecorded passages of 50 seconds and 68 seconds in length.
Academic text (2013) -
Please wait a second; I need to finish this message.
Synonyms
Idioms
- Informal
8
6.0
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
27
2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
18
4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
12
6.0
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
6
6.3
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
- Specialized
6
7.0
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
4
4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
4
5.0
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
3
4.3
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
3
3.0
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
1
7.9
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
1
7.7
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
1
2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
1
4.7
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
1
4.5
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
1
6.7
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
1
6.5
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
1
6.8
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
1
8.9
A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
1
8.8
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
1
4.4
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
1
9.9
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
How Short
- Specialized
1
8.0
- Informal
1
5.5
- Specialized
9
3.6
25
2.5
- Specialized
387
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1.0
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1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Second as the unit of time comes from a Latin phrase pars minuta secunda, meaning 'the second small part' of an hour, where minute meant 'small part', so a second is the next small division after the minute.