Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A stopwatch with two second hands, each of which may be stopped separately to time the intervals of a race by a sportsperson, or to time more than one sportsperson.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A fraction of a second; hence (figurative, also attributive) a very short time period; an instant, a moment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, New York minute, New York second, no time, sec, second, span, split-second, spurt, stound, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while
Antonyms: none provided
History
From split (adjective) + second (noun), from split second(s) hands: see sense 1.
Across languages
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
