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      minute
      noun
      A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
      (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
      (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
      A point in time; a moment.
      A 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.
      A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
      A nautical or a geographic mile.
      An old coin, a half farthing.
      (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
      (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
      (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
      verb
      (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
      To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
      adjective
      Very small.
      Very careful and exact, giving small details.
      Roots
      minutusminut- · Latin · small
      Synonyms for minute
      hournmomentninstantnmillisecondnintervalnmicrosecondntimeninfinitesimaladjjiffynquartern
      Words related to minute
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