1. n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
2. n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
3. n. 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. n. (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. n. 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. n. A point in time; a moment.
7. n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. n. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
11. n. (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.
1. n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
2. n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
3. n. (dated, British) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
a threepenny bit
4. n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
5. n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 re
A quarter is two bits.
6. n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
7. n. A small amount of something.
There were bits of paper all over the floor. Does your leg still hurt? / Just a bit now. I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
8. n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first. He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
9. n. A portion of something.
I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
10. n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
11. n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
12. n. (anchor, An excerpt of material) An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
13. n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
14. n. The cutting iron of a plane.
15. adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
That's a bit too sweet.
16. v. To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
17. v. simple past tense of bite
Your dog bit me!
18. v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past of bite, bitten
I have been bit by your dog!
19. adj. (colloquial) bitten.
Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
20. adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
21. n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
22. n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
23. n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
status bits on IRC; permission bits in a file system
24. n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
25. n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
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