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The definition of second
22 Definitions of: second
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- adjective, a) coming directly after the first in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of two: often written 2nd b) (as noun)
- adjective, rated, graded, or ranked between the first and third levels
- adjective, alternate
- adjective, additional; extra
- adjective, resembling a person or event from an earlier period of history; unoriginal
- adjective, of lower quality; inferior
- adjective, denoting the lowest but one forward ratio of a gearbox in a motor vehicle
- adjective, music a) relating to or denoting a musical part, voice, or instrument lower in pitch than another part, voice, or instrument (the first) b) of or relating to a part, instrument, or instrumentalist regarded as subordinate to another (the first)
- adjective, at second hand by hearsay
- noun, education an honours degree of the second class, usually further divided into an upper and lower designation. Full term: second-class honours degree
- noun, the lowest but one forward ratio of a gearbox in a motor vehicle
- noun, (in boxing, duelling, etc) an attendant who looks after a competitor
- noun, a speech seconding a motion or the person making it
- noun, music a) the interval between one note and another lying next above or below it in the diatonic scale b) one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other. See also minor, major, interval
- noun, goods of inferior quality
- noun, a second helping of food
- noun, the second course of a meal
- verb, to give aid or backing to
- verb, (in boxing, etc) to act as second to (a competitor)
- verb, to make a speech or otherwise express formal support for (a motion already proposed)
- adverb, Also: secondly in the second place
- sentence connector, Also: secondly as the second point: linking what follows with the previous statement
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- noun, a) 1/60 of a minute of time b) the basic SI unit of time: the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of caesium-133. Symbol: s
- noun, 1/60 of a minute of angle. Symbol: "
- noun, a very short period of time; moment
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- verb, to transfer (an employee) temporarily to another branch, etc
- verb, military to transfer (an officer) to another post, often retiring him to a staff or nonregimental position
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