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.
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