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vteřina — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • minute noun A unit of time equal to sixty seconds, or one sixtieth of an hour.
  • second adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.

Senses

vteřina is used for these senses in English:

  • minute (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
  • 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.

minute — full definition

  1. noun A unit of time equal to sixty seconds, or one sixtieth of an hour.
  2. noun A written record of what was discussed or decided at a meeting (usually plural: minutes).
  3. adj (pronounced differently, my-NEWT) Extremely small, or extremely detailed and careful.

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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