Minute

//ˈmɪnɪt// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Very small.

    "They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing."

  2. 2
    Very careful and exact, giving small details.

    "The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination wordnet
  2. 2
    infinitely or immeasurably small wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

    "Holonyms: hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond"

  2. 2
    distance measured by the time taken to cover it wordnet
  3. 3
    A short but unspecified time period. informal

    "give me a minute"

  4. 4
    a short note wordnet
  5. 5
    A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

    "We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc."

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  1. 6
    a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree wordnet
  2. 7
    A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting. in-plural

    "Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting."

  3. 8
    a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour wordnet
  4. 9
    A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

    "If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes."

  5. 10
    a particular point in time wordnet
  6. 11
    A point in time; a moment.

    "Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king."

  7. 12
    an indefinitely short time wordnet
  8. 13
    A nautical or a geographic mile.
  9. 14
    An old coin, a half farthing.
  10. 15
    A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit. obsolete

    "[…]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion"

  11. 16
    A fixed part of a module.
  12. 17
    A while or a long unspecified period of time. Canada, US, dialectal, slang

    "Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!"

Verb
  1. 1
    Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. transitive

    "I’ll minute this evening’s meeting."

  2. 2
    To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

    "The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).

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