minute in English dictionary

  • minute

    Meanings and definitions of "minute"

    • A unit of time equal to sixty seconds and one-sixtieth of an hour.
    • A short but unspecified time period.
    • A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
    • (in plural minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting.
    • A minute of use of a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network.
    • (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
    • Very small.
    • very careful and exact, giving small details.
    • adjective
      Very small.
    • adjective
      Very careful and exact, giving small details.
    • noun
      A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
    • noun
      A short but unspecified time period.
    • noun
      A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
    • noun
      (in the plural, minutes)
      A (usually formal) written record of a meeting.
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      A point in time; a moment.
    • noun
      A nautical or a geographic mile.
    • noun
      An old coin, a half farthing.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
    • noun
      (architecture)
      A fixed part of a module.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
    • verb
      To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
    • Extremely small in size.
    • unit of time
    • short but unspecified period of time
    • unit of angular measure
    • record of meeting
    • minute of use of telephone network
    • to write
    • very small
    • very careful and exact, givind small details
    • (a) minute
    • adjective
      characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
    • adjective
      infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
    • noun
      an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
    • noun
      a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
    • noun
      a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
    • noun
      a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
    • noun
      a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"
    • noun
      distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"

    Synonyms of "minute" in English dictionary

    min, distance, instant are the top synonyms of "minute" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of minute

    • minute ( third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)
    • minute ( comparative minuter, superlative minutest)
    • minute ( plural  minutes)
    • lm  liczba mnoga minutes
    • minute (comparative minuter, superlative minutest)
    • minute (plural minutes)
    • minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)
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