Definitions
1.nounAbbreviation of minimal.
2.nounThe lowest limit."We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all time."
3.nounThe smallest amount."He always tries to get away with doing the minimum."
4.nounA period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star)."The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth."
5.nounA lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
6.nounThe smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
7.nounA unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour)."You have twenty minutes to complete the test."
8.nounA short but unspecified time period."Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!"
9.nounA 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."
10.noun(chiefly in the plural, 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."
11.nounA 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."
12.nounA point in time; a moment.
13.nounA nautical or a geographic mile.
14.nounAn old coin, a half farthing.
15.nounA very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
16.nounA fixed part of a module.
17.nounA while or a long unspecified period of time"Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!"