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second unit

second unit noun: a separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.

Noun

second unit (plural second units)

  1. A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.
    • It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of second unit

pluralsecond units

Questions about second unit

What does second unit mean?
Second unit means a separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.
What part of speech is second unit?
Second unit is a noun.
What is the plural of second unit?
The plural of second unit is second units.

Words near second unit in the dictionary

  1. second toe
  2. second toes
  3. second Tuesday of the week
  4. second uncle
  5. second uncles
  6. second unit
  7. second units
  8. second violin
  9. second violinist
  10. second violinists
  11. second violins

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