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Second (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1183217
Source-derived summary

A second is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI).

Second, Seconds, The Second, or (The) 2nd may also refer to:

Mathematics

2 (number), as an ordinal (also written as 2nd or 2d)

Second of arc, an angular measurement unit, ⁠1/3600⁠ of a degree

Music

Second (band), a Spanish rock group from Murcia

Notes and intervals

Augmented second, an interval in classical music

Diminished second, unison

Major second, a whole tone

Minor second, semitone

Neutral second one-and-a-half semitones

Albums

The Second, second studio album by rock band Steppenwolf

The 2nd (album), a 2006 album by Hater

Seconds (The Dogs D'Amour album), released in 2000

Seconds (Kate Rogers album), released in 2005

Seconds (Tim Berne album), released in 2007

EPs

2nd, a 1996 EP by The Rasmus

Second (EP), a 2005 EP by Baroness

Second, a 2014 EP by Raye

Songs

"Second", a 2019 song by Erika Costell

"Second", a 2020 song by Hope D

"Second", a song from Sleaford Mods' 2020 compilation album All That Glue

"Second" (song), a 2021 song by Hyoyeon

"Seconds", from The Human League's 1981 album Dare

"Seconds" (song), from U2's 1983 album War

"Seconds", from Le Tigre's 2004 album This Island

Film and television

The 2nd (film), an American 2020 film starring Ryan Phillippe

The Second (film), a 2018 Australian film directed by Mairi Cameron, winner of the 2018 AACTA Award for Best Indie Film

Seconds (1966 film), a US thriller directed by John Frankenheimer

Seconds (2014 film), an Indian Malayalam-language thriller film by Aneesh Upasana

"Seconds" (The Batman), an episode in the American animated TV series

"Seconds", an episode of the American TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Places

2nd meridian east, a line of longitude extending through Europe and Africa

2nd meridian west, a line of longitude extending through Europe and Africa

2nd parallel north, a circle of latitude above the Equator

2nd parallel south, a circle of latitude below the Equator

2nd Street (disambiguation)

Second Avenue (disambiguation)

Publications

Seconds, an interview magazine published from 1987–2000.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2000, 2005, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Second, disambiguation and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from Second (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.