Music

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 and EPs

• 2nd (The Rasmus EP), 1996

• Second (Baroness EP), 2005

• Second (Raye EP), 2014

• The Second, second studio album by rock band Steppenwolf

People

• Albéric Second, a French journalist and writer

• Second-in-command, a deputy commander in British and Commonwealth armies

Science

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

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

• Second of right ascension, in astronomy

Sports, games, and dueling

• Second dealing, a way of cheating in card games

• Second (chess), assistant to a chess player

• Second (curling), delivers the second set of stones in curling;

• Second (duel), the agent of the participant

• Second, the cornerman in combative sports such as boxing

• Second (rock climbing), the climber who follows the lead climber

Other

• Second (parliamentary procedure), to formally support a motion or resolution

• Factory second, a new product sold for a discount because of minor imperfections

• Second hand or used goods, items that have been used before being resold

• Academic degree, second-class degree, divided into upper-second and lower-second, or 2.1 and 2.2, in the British undergraduate degree classification

• Educational stage in North American elementary schools

See also

• Secondment, a transfer of an employee, usually within an organization

• Segundo (disambiguation)

• SND (disambiguation)