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noun

• A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

  Example: You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

• A short but unspecified time period.

  Example: Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

• A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

  Example: We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.

• (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

  Example: Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.

• 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.

  Example: If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

• A point in time; a moment.

• A nautical or a geographic mile.

• An old coin, a half farthing.

• A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

• A fixed part of a module.

• A while or a long unspecified period of time

  Example: Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

verb

• Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

  Example: I’ll minute this evening’s 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.

  Example: They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.

• Very careful and exact, giving small details.

  Example: The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.