Second is the one located behind the first and in front of the third.
Second place
In the field of sport , the idea of second comes up frequently. If we focus on motor racing competitions , the driver who comes in second place is the driver who arrives immediately after the winner of the race.
Achieving second place is a significant achievement. In fact, the top three competitors get to stand on the podium to celebrate. In addition, the second-placed rider accumulates points that count towards the championship.
The standings of sports competitions are, in fact, structured according to the points earned by the participants on the different dates. The athlete or team that is in second place only has one competitor ahead or above them.
A helper or assistant
As a noun , second refers to an individual who assists or helps another person . This meaning is frequently used in boxing : the second is in charge of attending to the boxer before the fight and during the breaks that occur during it.
The person who is below the top manager in the hierarchical order of an institution is also called second in command. Thus, it is common to find expressions such as “López is Dr. González’s second in command” , “I will not be present, but you can discuss it with my second in command” or “García was the second in command of the previous director for many years until he finally took over” .
The second is a unit of time.
The second as a unit of time
The second is a base unit of the International System of Units . It is a unit of time that is often referred to as the sixtieth part of a minute , which means that one minute is made up of sixty seconds.
However, the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) offers a more precise definition. One second, in this framework, is equivalent to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation emitted during the transition recorded between the hyperfine levels of the fundamental state of a cesium-133 atom (i.e., of the isotope 133 of the chemical element cesium).
It is interesting to note that the symbol for the second is s . It is common to find confusion between this symbol and abbreviations that are not officially recognized, such as sg. or seg.
Suppose a journalist wants to indicate in a note that the world record for athletics in the 100-meter flat race is 9 seconds and 58 hundredths and belongs to the Jamaican Usain Bolt . The correct thing to do is to write that the mark in question is 9.58 s , and not that it is 9.58 sec .
The notion in feminine
The idea of segunda, in the feminine sense, has several uses. This is the name for one of the gears or speeds of the engine of a car and other vehicles.
The second has less power compared to the first , but greater speed . Regarding the third , the power is greater but the speed is lower.
The expression “hacer la segunda” is also associated with support. When someone “does the second” to another person, they support or back them in their intentions.