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Minute
Definitions
- 1 Very small.
"They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing."
- 2 Very careful and exact, giving small details.
"The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination."
- 1 characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination wordnet
- 2 infinitely or immeasurably small wordnet
- 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 distance measured by the time taken to cover it wordnet
- 3 A short but unspecified time period. informal
"give me a minute"
- 4 a short note wordnet
- 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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- 6 a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree wordnet
- 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."
- 8 a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour wordnet
- 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."
- 10 a particular point in time wordnet
- 11 A point in time; a moment.
"Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king."
- 12 an indefinitely short time wordnet
- 13 A nautical or a geographic mile.
- 14 An old coin, a half farthing.
- 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"
- 16 A fixed part of a module.
- 17 A while or a long unspecified period of time. Canada, US, dialectal, slang
"Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!"
- 1 Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. transitive
"I’ll minute this evening’s meeting."
- 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
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.
Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).
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