second
- noun
- /ˈsɛkənd/
- Specialized
- North, 34 degrees, 20 minutes, 16.8 seconds.
- arc second
- size of one second
- arc seconds across
Examples
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'Longitude one degree, 11 minutes, 20 seconds west.'
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19 degrees, 30 minutes, 20 seconds north, 11 degrees, 40 minutes, 10 seconds west.
Fiction book (1995) -
Fourteen degrees latitude... five minutes, six seconds north.
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Latitude 51 degrees, ten minutes, 30 seconds north.
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East, 44 degrees, 24 minutes, 14.4 seconds.
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Twenty-nine degrees, 57 minutes, three seconds.
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30.32 seconds north... by 80 degrees, 36 minutes.
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21 seconds north latitude, 142 minutes 11 seconds latitude.
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21 seconds north latitude, 142 minutes 11 seconds latitude.
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The angle was measured at 30 degrees and 15 seconds to get a precise reading.
Synonyms
A very small unit for measuring angles equal to one 3600th of a degree used by astronomers
Idioms
- Informal
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Compounds
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
- Specialized
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
Surface Forms
Etymology
Second for angular measure is like the time unit: it is the 'second small part' after the minute of arc, so a second of arc is a very small part of a degree.