What does Seconds mean?

Definitions for Seconds
sec·onds

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Seconds.


Did you actually mean second deck or second-guess?

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.

Suggested Resources

  1. seconds

    Song lyrics by seconds -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by seconds on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce Seconds?

How to say Seconds in sign language?

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. The FBI:

    This attack continues for approximately 16 seconds until Foy is knocked down by another rioter. ... Foy raises his hockey stick above his head in celebration.

  2. Volodymyr Zelensky:

    The negotiations lasted for about 9 hours, everyone talked to him, from psychologists to special negotiators, but he wanted just one thing, his demands to be met, and kept threatening( the people), so we had a council and I wanted to speak to this man. Before that he spoke to everyone for about 10-15 seconds and then hung up but then we managed to talk for 7-10 minutes and reached an agreement that he will make the first move to release our citizens.

  3. Bradley Ballantyne:

    The animals bolted past my car, I drove after them for a few seconds but they ran into thick bush and was unable to follow them.

  4. Emily Petroff:

    The burst was identified within 10 seconds of its occurrence, the importance of the discovery was recognized very quickly and we were all working very excitedly to contact other astronomers and telescopes around the world to look at the location of the burst.

  5. Richard Allen:

    So the amount of warning time we might be talking about depends of course on where you are relative to the earthquake. We are talking about seconds, tens of seconds, best case scenario is a few minutes before and earthquake, tens of minutes potentially for tsunamis.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

Seconds#1#2056#10000

Translations for Seconds

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for Seconds »

Translation

Find a translation for the Seconds definition in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

Please enter your email address:


Citation

Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Seconds." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/Seconds>.

Discuss these Seconds definitions with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for Seconds? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Image or illustration of

    Seconds

    Credit »

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
    A defiant
    B epidemic
    C appellative
    D adscripted

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for Seconds: