2ND

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 2nd mean? 

• 2ND (adjective)
  The adjective 2ND has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: 2ND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 2ND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

2d; 2nd; second

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

It was August 2nd when we snapped our last link with the outer world by bidding farewell to the Esmeralda.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A glycerol backbone covalently bound to a phosphate group in one position, and fatty acids in the 2nd and 3rd positions.

(Phosphatidic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

His death was seven weeks later, upon the night of May 2nd.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A monounsaturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 12-carbon backbone and a single double bond originating from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th or 10th positions from the methyl end.

(Lauroleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A monounsaturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 12-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th or 10th position from the methyl end.

(Dodecenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The 2nd cranial nerve.

(Murine Optic Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the beginning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)