A single step in a musical scale, the interval between two successive notes. In many scales, the seconds are often close to whole tones and half tones.
The Chalmers definition above refers to the generic usage of "2nd" without a qualifying adjective, which often precedes the interval name in standard diatonic usage. Thus, the various different types of diatonic 2nds are (in order of size from smallest to largest):
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