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1.NounA unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds)."You have twenty minutes to complete the test."
2.NounA short but unspecified time period."give me a minute; 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.NounA (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 similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network."If you buy this model, 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.
14.AdjectiveVery small."They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing."
15.AdjectiveVery careful and exact, giving small details."The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination."