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sekunda — meaning in English

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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

  1. adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.
  2. noun A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute.
  3. verb To formally support a motion or proposal so that it can be voted on.

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