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How long is a seconds?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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11y ago

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There are two possible measurements for "second":

A duration of time

  • A second (1/60 of a minute) was originally defined as 1/86 400 of the mean solar day. However this could not be accurately measured. Presently the second is the duration of 9 192631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom

The distance around the circumference of a curve:

  • A curve is divided into 360 degrees, each degree contains 60 minutes and each minute 60 seconds. So each second is 1/1,296,000 of the circumference.
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Seconds is one of many units of time. However, it is the official SI unit of time.

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11y ago

1000 milliseconds

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