minute

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

   • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond
   • You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
2. 2

   A short but unspecified time period.

   • give me a minute
   • Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
3. 3

   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. 4

      A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

      • Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
   2. 5

      A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone…

      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.
   3. 6

      A point in time

      A point in time; a moment.

      • I conked out the minute I got home.
      • Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
   4. 7

      A nautical or a geographic mile.

   5. 8

      An old coin, a half farthing.

   6. 9

      A very small part of anything, or anything very small

      A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

      • […]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion
   7. 10

      A fixed part of a module.

   8. 11

      A while or a long unspecified period of time.

      • Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
      • “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
      • I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute.
   9. 12

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

      • I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
      • I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
      • On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
   10. 13

       To set down a short sketch or note of

       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.
   11. 14

       Very small.

       • They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
   12. 15

       Very careful and exact, giving small details.

       • The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.

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