| minute | |
| 1. subst. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). | |
| You have twenty minutes to complete the test. | |
| 2. subst. (informal) A short but unspecified time period. | |
| Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet! | |
| 3. subst. 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. | |
| 4. subst. (chiefly in the minutes) 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. | |
| 5. subst. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network. | |
| If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes. | |
| 6. subst. A point in time; a moment. | |
| 7. subst. A nautical or a geographic mile. | |
| 8. subst. An old coin, a half farthing. | |
| 9. subst. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit. | |
| 10. subst. (architecture) A fixed part of a module. | |
| 11. subst. (slang) A while or a long unspecified period of time | |
| Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute! | |
| 12. v. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. | |
| I’ll minute this evening’s meeting. | |
| 13. v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. | |
| 14. adj. Very small. | |
| They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing. | |
| 15. adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details. | |
| The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination. | |
