Usually means: Basic unit of time measurement.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. second: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. second, second, second: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. second, second: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. second: Collins English Dictionary
  5. second: Vocabulary.com
  6. Second, second, second: Wordnik
  7. second: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. second: Wiktionary
  9. second: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. second: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. second: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. second: Dictionary.com
  13. second (adj.), second (n.), second (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. second: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Second (Baroness album), Second (Raye EP), Second (angle), Second (chess), Second (curling), Second (disambiguation), Second (duel), Second (parliamentary procedure), Second (unit), Second, The Second: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Second: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. second: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. second: Rhymezone
  19. second, second (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. second: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Second: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. second: Free Dictionary
  23. second: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. second: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. second: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. second-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Second: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Second (parliamentary), Second (time), second: Legal dictionary
  3. second: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. second: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. Second (time), second: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Second (rock climbing), Second (time), second: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SECOND: Acronym Finder
  2. second: Idioms

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Second: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Second: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Second: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. second: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Second: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  8. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. second, second, second: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. second: The Folk File
  3. second: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. second: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See seconded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (second)

adjective:  Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
adjective:  Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
adjective:  Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
adverb:  (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
adverb:  After the first occurrence but before the third.
noun:  Something that is number two in a series.
noun:  Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
noun:  The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
noun:  (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
noun:  A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
noun:  (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
noun:  The second gear of an engine.
noun:  (baseball) Second base.
noun:  The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
noun:  A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
noun:  (informal) A second-class honours degree.
verb:  (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
verb:  To follow in the next place; to succeed.
verb:  (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
noun:  A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines 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.
noun:  A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
noun:  (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
verb:  (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
verb:  (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
verb:  (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
verb:  (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
noun:  One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
noun:  One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
noun:  (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.

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