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1.nounA unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour)."You have twenty minutes to complete the test."
2.nounA short but unspecified time period."Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!"
3.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."
4.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."
5.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."
6.nounA point in time; a moment.
7.nounA nautical or a geographic mile.
8.nounAn old coin, a half farthing.
9.nounA very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10.nounA fixed part of a module.
11.nounA while or a long unspecified period of time"Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!"
12.verbOf an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting."I’ll minute this evening’s meeting."
13.verbTo set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.