2nd

Definition: 2nd

2nd

Adjective

1. Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: 2nd

Crosswords: 2nd

I didn't tune in until the 2nd inning (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart)

2nd Verse (Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

2ND BRIDGE (Always in My Heart; performing artist: Tevin Campbell)

Canadian Infantry: Parade 2nd Special Service Battalion (1899)

Conn. 2nd Company Governor's Footguards (1899)

Langton Performer 2nd (1899)

Second Battalion; 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers (1898)

Return of the 2nd Regiment of New Jersey (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition (reference)

• Bird Census Techniques, 2nd Edition (reference)

• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd Edition (reference)

• Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition (reference)

• Watercolours from 1840 to 1914 of places in the Borough of Greenwich : a catalogue of pictures in the collection of Woodlands Art Gallery produced to coincide with an exhibition held from 4th January to 2nd February 1975 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Brewers Bulletin - 2nd Class (reference)

• Ragazzi - 2nd Level Italian (reference)

• Kid - 2nd Level English (reference)

• Iuvenis - 2nd Level Latin (reference)

• Freunde - 2nd Level German (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• 2nd Annual Battle of the Wwf Superstr (reference)

• Reiki 2nd Level Attunement Learn & Use the Reiki Sacred Symbols (reference)

• Beethoven's 2nd (reference)

• Todd Rundgren - The Desktop Collection & 2nd Wind Live Recording Sessions (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Follow That Road: 2nd Annual Vineyard Retreat (reference)

• Lost & Found 2nd Edition [EP] (reference)

• Launch : 2nd Anniversary Issue (reference)

• Mixed Live 2nd Session (reference)

• Mixed Live: 2nd Session Clubspace Miami [ENHANCED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Brain Quest 2nd Grade (reference)

• Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures (reference)

• 2ND BATT FOR-VERSA E120 DAYLIGHT NB (reference)

• Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (reference)

• Freebsd Handbook 2Nd Edition, The (Book W/Cd) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Velocity Field for Fluid Flow Thru a Tube" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (the curvature), B (the inner diameter), or C (the speed of the fluid flow). Inspired by a drawing on page 3 of Harry Schey's "Div, Grad, Curl, and All That", 2nd edition. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

Alexander Dallas Bache 2nd Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Point Conception Lighthouse Drawing by Major Hartman Bache, inspectof of the 12th Lighthouse District Hartman Bache was the uncle of Alexander D. Bache, 2nd supt. of the Coast Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

West Point from near Constitution Island looking down. On the Hudson River. In : Atlantic Local Coast Pilot Sub-Division 13 South Coast of Long Island New York Bay and Hudson River 1880. P. 602. Library Call Number VK981.A3 1879 Sub-13 2nd ed. 1880. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View of the Crow's Nest and Storm King from West Point. On the Hudson River. In : Atlantic Local Coast Pilot Sub-Division 13 South Coast of Long Island New York Bay and Hudson River 1880. P. 604. Library Call Number VK981.A3 1879 Sub-13 2nd ed. 1880. Credit: America's Coastlines.

2nd Engineer Bill Ness at work in the RAINIER's engine room. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Chief Cook Doretha and 2nd Cook Sarah Satterfield prepare another fine meal in the ship's galley. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Graphic of 2nd generation GOES satellite in orbit. Credit: NOAA in Space.

The Air Force honored 2nd Lt. Richard Van de Geer with a full-honors funeral Oct. 27, at Arlington National Cemetery. Van de Geer died when the CH-53 helicopter he was co-piloting was shot down approaching Ko Tang Island, Cambodia, during the USS Mayaquez.

Retired Lt. Gen. Harry A. Goodall presents the U.S. flag to the family of 2nd Lt. Richard Van de Geer during a full-honors funeral Oct. 27, at Arlington National Cemetery. Goodall was the wing commander at the time Van de Geer participated in the USS Maya.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

it was the 16th of June and the 2nd of July

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Among Chinese men, cancer, heart trouble, and respiratory disease will move up in the disease burden scale from 5th, 3rd, and 4th to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. (references)

The 2nd International Commercial Security, Fire & Safety Exhibition (INTERSEC 2000) was recently held in Dubai January 24-26, 2000 and its organizers are planning to make it the largest annual event of its kind in the region. (references)

Besides the provision of broadband services for mobile users, UMTS aims at the integration of current 2nd generation and fixed network technologies, and intends to provide powerful interworking capabilities to yield a high degree of acceptance. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Sharjah International is the oldest UAE airport and the world's 2nd largest sea-air cargo airport. (references)

Samoa

Samoa maintains its diplomatic representation in the U.S. at 800 2nd Avenue, Suite 400D, New York, NY 10017. Tel: 212-599-6196. (references)

Greece

Early in the 2nd millennium BC, the island of Crete nurtured the sophisticated maritime empire of the Minoans, whose trade reached from Egypt to Sicily. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

At year's end, marine Colonel Jose Ancizar Molano Padilla (then-commander of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion) as well as marine Corporals Javier Fernando Guerrero, Eduardo Aristides Alvarez, and Jose Milton Caicedo were standing trial in a civilian court in Pasto for the 1995 social cleansing killings of alleged thieves Sifredy and Fredy Arboleda. (references)

Colombia

Colonel Jose Ancizar Molano Padilla (then-commander of the 2nd Marine infantry battalion), Captain Alvaro Hernando Moreno, Captain Rafael Garcia, Lieutenant Carlos Eduardo Jaramillo, and four noncommissioned officers were on trial at year's end for torturing 12 marines with asphyxiation and electric shocks in December 1995. CINEP reported 158 cases of torture by paramilitaries in the period from January through September. (references)

Colombia

The five charged are former commanders of the army's Fourth Division, retired Major General Augustin Ardila Uribe and General Jaime Humberto Cortes Parada (the army's Inspector General); former commander of the 7th Brigade, retired Brigadier General Jaime Humberto Uscategui; commander of the 2nd Brigade, General Fredy Padilla de Leon (also the former head of the 7th Brigade); and the commander of the "Joaquin Paris" battalion, Colonel Gustavo Sanchez Gutierrez. (references)

Worker Rights

Thailand

Work permits for immigrant laborers initially are granted for 1 year, and routinely are extended for a 2nd year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

二號 (2nd day of the month), 乙 (2nd heavenly stem, 2nd in order), 仲 (2nd in seniority), 丑 (1-3 a.m., 2nd Earthly Branch, clown, disgraceful, shameful, ugly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貴殿 (polite 2nd person pronoun), 乙 (2nd in rank, chic, quaint, queer, romantic, second sign of the Chinese calendar, spicy, strange, stylish, tasty, witty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きのと (2nd in rank, second sign of the Chinese calendar), きでん (generation of electricity, polite 2nd person pronoun). (various references)

RM:segunda partiziun civila, RM:segunda partiziun da dretg public. (various references)