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

   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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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

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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. Billy Casper:

   Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been asked that before, so I thought for a few seconds. And I said I want to be remembered that I had a great love for my fellow man.

2. The Census Bureau:

   In January 2015, the U.S. is expected to experience a birth every eight seconds and one death every 12 seconds. Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person to the U.S. population every 33 seconds.

3. Bob Kayajanian:

   Within seconds, you could hear people in the crowd singing and the volume of their voices building. There I was, standing in the middle of a true testament to unity and patriotism. we try to follow with what normally gets done.

4. Rafael Nadal:

   I lost the third set. All good - he played very well, served very well. But the fourth set tie-break was a heartbreaker for me, you feel seconds away to win Wimbledon and, after that second, you need to fight for another set after losing two sets in a row against the best grass-court player in history.

5. Le Cun:

   When I was first sucked into the pipe, it was so turbulent it was unbelievable, i had to hang onto my mask. It was 20-30 seconds before I got my bearings.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Seconds
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds