(fencing) The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.

simple past tense and past participle of second

plural of seconder

(in combination) Something that lasts or takes a specified number of seconds. / The person who makes a second to a motion in any formal procedure, such as a parliamentary procedure.

plural of seconde

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.

(with superlative) After the first; at the second rank. / After the first occurrence but before the third.

Something that is number two in a series. / Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. / The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.

(transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.) / To follow in the next place; to succeed.

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.