seconde — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
seconde is used for these senses in English:
- bit (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
- 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).
- tick (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
bit — full definition
- noun A small piece or amount of something.
- noun The smallest unit of digital information, representing a 0 or a 1.
- verb Past tense of "bite".
jiffy — full definition
- noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
- noun A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- noun The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- noun The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.