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ES: segunda, I: secunda, F: seconde, D: Sekund(a), NL: secunde, DK: sekund, S: sekund, FI: sekunti.
The interval between two neigbouring tones of a scale. A diatonic scale consists of alternating semitones and whole tones, hence the size of a second depends on the scale degrees in question.
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