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Wiktionary

  1. secondsnoun

    A second serving of food for one person.

    There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds.

  2. secondsnoun

    An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount

    It was marked as seconds, but I can't find anything wrong with it.

Wikipedia

  1. seconds

    The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as 1⁄86400 of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). The current and formal definition in the International System of Units (SI) is more precise:The second [...] is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1. This current definition was adopted in 1967 when it became feasible to define the second based on fundamental properties of nature with caesium clocks. Because the speed of Earth's rotation varies and is slowing ever so slightly, a leap second is added at irregular intervals to civil time to keep clocks in sync with Earth's rotation.

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    Rank popularity for the word 'seconds' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2550

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    Rank popularity for the word 'seconds' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2101

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of seconds in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of seconds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of seconds in a Sentence

  1. Ghazal Abdullah:

    The plane had dropped a bomb on the main Bazaar street at low altitude only seconds before it crashed.

  2. Thiago Augusto:

    When we started out, we got very little energy, today, with the development of Kelly's research in her masters, we got enough energy to power 50 or 60 LED bulbs every ten seconds. It's a considerable amount of energy that is free, and which comes from the environment.

  3. Chris Fearne:

    Vaccines are being administered at a rate of one every five seconds, forty-two percent of the adult population has received two doses.

  4. Lenny Bruce:

    The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

  5. Gavata Smith:

    I don’t know how you just go on and live this with having a gun pulled on you with your dear loved ones like only seconds away.

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