sekunda — meaning in English
Czech → English · translate English → Czech instead
English meaning
- second adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.
Senses
sekunda is used for these senses in English:
- second 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.
- second A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- second (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- second (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
second — full definition
- adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.
- noun A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.
- verb To formally support a motion or proposal so that it can be voted on.