📖 Definitions of "Split second"
noun
- 1
The nick of time; a brief moment.
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Split second"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tricenoun | Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment. |
| blink of an eyenoun | (idiomatic) A moment (a very short period of time). |
| instantnoun | A very short period of time; a moment. |
| new york minutenoun | (informal) An instant; an extremely short time. |
| jiffynoun | (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. |
| flashnoun | (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. |
| twinklingnoun | Sparkling intermittently. |
| winknoun | (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.) |
| sec. | Abbreviation of section. [A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.] |
| second helpingnoun | A second portion of the same thing, usually of food; seconds; refill. |
| secundonoun | (music) The secondary part of a duet. |
| secondnoun | Something that is number two in a series. |
| two swordsnoun | (chiefly history, Roman Catholicism) Spiritual and temporal power, church and state. |
| hellasecond | — |
| just a secondnoun | (idiomatic) A short period of time, typically anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes or more. |
| half termnoun | (UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term, generally lasting a week. |
| secondonoun | The course that follows the antipasto and primo courses in a full course Italian meal; the meat or fish course. |
| leap secondnoun | A second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time. |
| sixty-secondnoun | Lasting sixty seconds. |
| minor secondnoun | (music) an interval that is equivalent to the difference between the third and fourth degrees of a diatonic major scale. |
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