segundo — meaning in English

English meaning

• latter adj Being the second of two things just mentioned.
• second adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.
• tick noun A small blood-feeding arachnid that attaches to the skin of animals and humans.

Senses

segundo is used for these senses in English:

• latter Relating to or being the second of two items.
• second Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
• 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.
• tick (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.

latter — full definition

1. adj Being the second of two things just mentioned.
2. adj Closer to the end of a period.

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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