Second
//ˈsɛk.ənd//
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The word "second" can be used as noun, verb, adjective, adverb, adjective and adverb.
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New York second Newton's second law Saybolt universal second Secondspace Stirling number of the second kind at second hand attosecond beard-second centimeter-gram-second centimetre-gram-second centisecond come off second best cosmetic second court of second instance cumec cusec cycle per second decasecond decisecond diminished second dying seconds ephemeris second error of the second kind every second exasecond factory second femtosecond five-second rule foot per second foot-pound-second frame per second gigasecond have second thoughts hectosecond hot second intersecond joule-second just a second kilosecond leap second light second lumen second major second megasecond meter-kilogram-second meter-tonne-second metre per second metre-kilogram-second metre-tonne-second microsecond millimicrosecond millisecond minor second multisecond murder in the second degree nanosecond ohnosecond on second thought on second thoughts parallax second party of the second part perpetual motion machine of the second kind petasecond picosecond play second fiddle quectosecond ronnasecond rontosecond second Tuesday of the week second act second amendment second aunt second banana second base second baseman second best second brain second breakfast second chance second childhood second city second class second coming second conditional second contact second cosmic velocity second countable second cousin second cranial nerve second cross-cousin second day cover second death second derivative second distance second division second down second estate second family second fiddle second five-eighth second flour second freedom rights second from last second gas effect second gentleman second girl second grade second grader second guesser second half second hand second helping second home second impact syndrome second imperative second in command second inversion second island chain second joint second lady second language second last second leg second lieutenant second line second man second messenger second moment of area second moment of inertia second most second mourning second name second nature second new ball second normal form second officer second opinion second order cybernetics second order stream second palatalization second party second person second position second preimage attack second puberty second quest second reading second row second screen second serve second service second session second sheet second shift second sight second skin second sleep second slip second sound second source second strike second string second team second thought second thoughts second to last second to none second uncle second unit second violin second violinist second virginity second wave second wind second year second yellow card second-campism second-class continuation second-countable second-degree second-drawer second-generation second-growth forest second-guarder second-guess second-hand second-harmonic generation second-in-command second-last second-level domain second-line second-mile service second-order second-rate second-round effect second-sighted second-storey man second-storey worker second-system effect second-system syndrome secondable secondary secondborn secondee secondhanded secondlong secondly secondman secondment secondmost secondness secondth sloppy seconds split second split-second subsecond ten-second car ten-second rule terasecond the second mouse gets the cheese thirty-second rest this second three seconds rule three-second rule two seconds to black two-second rule watt-second yoctosecond yottasecond zeptosecond zettasecond μsecond
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