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### 1.198 second

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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