Sec
/sɛk/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Sec
noun
- 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.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
"I'll be there in a second."
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secarcsecondsecond of arcwords used as placeholders to count seconds