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minute
1[ min-it ]
noun
- the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- an indefinitely short space of time:
Wait a minute!
Come here this minute!
- minutes, the official record of the proceedings at a meeting of a society, committee, or other group.
- Chiefly British. a written summary, note, or memorandum.
- a rough draft, as of a document.
- Geometry. the sixtieth part of a degree of angular measure, often represented by the sign ′, as in 12° 10′, which is read as 12 degrees and 10 minutes. Compare angle 1( def 1c ).
verb (used with object)
- to time exactly, as movements or speed.
- to make a draft of (a document or the like).
- to record in a memorandum; note down.
- to enter in the minutes of a meeting.
adjective
- prepared in a very short time:
minute pudding.
minute
2[ mahy-noot, -nyoot, mi- ]
adjective
- extremely small, as in size, amount, extent, or degree:
minute differences.
Synonyms: minuscule, infinitesimal, tiny
Antonyms: large
- of minor importance; insignificant; trifling.
- attentive to or concerned with even the smallest details:
a minute examination.
minute
1/ maɪˈnjuːt /
adjective
- very small; diminutive; tiny
- unimportant; petty
- precise or detailed
a minute examination
minute
2/ ˈmɪnɪt /
noun
- a period of time equal to 60 seconds; one sixtieth of an hour
- Also calledminute of arc a unit of angular measure equal to one sixtieth of a degree ′
- any very short period of time; moment
- a short note or memorandum
- the distance that can be travelled in a minute
it's only two minutes away
- up to the minuteup-to-the-minute when prenominal very latest or newest
verb
- to record in minutes
to minute a meeting
- to time in terms of minutes
minute
/ mĭn′ĭt /
- A unit of time equal to 1 60 of an hour or 60 seconds.
- ◆ A sidereal minute is 1 60 of a sidereal hour, and a mean solar minute is 1 60 of a mean solar hour.
- See more at sidereal time
- A unit of angular measurement, such as longitude or right ascension, that is equal to 1 60 of a degree or 60 seconds.
Derived Forms
- miˈnuteness, noun
Other Words From
- un·min·ut·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of minute1
Origin of minute2
Idioms and Phrases
- up to the minute, modern; up-to-date:
The building design is up to the minute.
More idioms and phrases containing minute
see at the last minute ; every minute counts ; just a minute ; mile a minute ; wait a minute .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The minute you start stimulating the brain, you are going to be changing people’s minds.
“I started learning patients’ minute-renewal schedules,” Winford said in an interview.
Its maximum print speed is 35 pages per minute and features auto-duplex printing and a color touchscreen display that will connect your scans to Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, OneDrive, and more.
One problem with Fake Famous is that, clocking in at under 90 minutes, it barely gives viewers a sense of what the subjects are like as people.
Regulators and politicians have questioned their growth and data collection, and their power over the most minute aspects of people’s lives.
Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.
“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?
“The beginning of that piece is one minute of cellos and violas,” he says.
After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.
I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
By the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.
The remaining one struggled for another half-minute, and flared up in one last, desperate effort.
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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