Definitions for seconds
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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.

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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?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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. Jane Dutton:

   It only takes 40 seconds of a caring interaction to change a patient in a way that affects their whole health trajectory.

2. Francesca Hayward:

   I definitely remember the few seconds right before I make my first entrance, I kind of got quite emotional, i remembered all the times that I have done that when I was so small in my living room and just to think that it was really happening was quite a big moment.

3. Lamar White:

   I opened up my laptop and searched ‘Steve Scalise’ and ‘David Duke’ and within 35 seconds I found the Stormfront post.

4. Oliver Taylor:

   A typical oil change today takes about 20 minutes to complete. With the Nexcel system it takes only 90 seconds to do the full oil service. So the Nexcel oil cell contains the engine oil and filter. So by taking the oil cell out of the car and putting a brand new oil cell back in; that's it - oil change done.

5. Professor Karsten Koenig:

   We use femtosecond laser pulses. We scan the skin and we get signals from the skin, particularly fluorescence, as well as another signal called second harmonic generation. So with these two signals we can build up images and get a precise look into the skin with a high resolution. The resolution is a factor of one thousand (times) better than ultrasound. So now you get the information without taking biopsies; normally you slice them, you stain them, and then a pathologist would look through these sections. Now you can get this information in seconds, labor free and with this fantastic resolution.

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