Analog clocks and watches often have sixty tick marks on their faces, representing seconds (and minutes), and a "second hand" to mark the passage of time in seconds. Digital clocks and …

The meaning of SECOND is next to the first in place or time. How to use second in a sentence.

SECOND definition: 1. immediately after the first and before any others: 2. the position in which a person finishes a…. Learn more.

Second definition: next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.. See examples of SECOND used in a sentence.

1. In the second order, place, or rank: finished second. 2. But for one other; save one: the second highest peak.

A second is a unit of time, and one of the sixty parts that a minute is divided into.

He got out with seconds to spare. see also split second Wait a second—this email's been sent to me by mistake. This will only take a second. I hesitated for a second before speaking. For a …

2 days ago · Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).

You're second on the list. This is my second piece of chocolate cake. She didn't win but she did come second (= was the one after the winner) in one race.

In science, a second is the time it takes for a caesium atom to vibrate 9,192,631,770 (around 9 billion) times. Scientists measure the second this way because the length of a day changes all …