sec

/sɛk/

noun

  1. 1

    Second, 1/60 of a minute.

noun

  1. 1

    One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.

  2. 2

    A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.

  3. 3

    A short, indeterminate amount of time.

    I'll be there in a second.

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