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. | |