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The correct spelling is sec.
How to pronounce sec
noun
IPA: /sɛk/
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The correct spelling is sec. Second, 1/60 of a minute. For example: "I'll be there in a second."
Usage Examples
“I'll be there in a second.”
Definition
noun
- 1.Second, 1/60 of a minute.
- 2.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.
- 3.A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- 4.A short, indeterminate amount of time.
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