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See also:Minute,minuté,minutë,minutė,minutę,minūte,andminūtē

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishmynute,minute,mynet, fromOld Frenchminute, fromMedieval Latinminūta(“60th of an hour; note”).Doublet ofmenu andmenudo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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minute (pluralminutes)

  2. Aunit oftime which is one sixtieth of anhour (sixtyseconds).
    Alternative forms:min(least ambiguous symbol);m,M(symbols also widely used)
    Holonyms:hectosecond <kilosecond <hour <day <week <megasecond <fortnight <month <year <gigasecond <century <kiloannum,kiloyear,millennium <terasecond <mega-annum,megayear <petasecond <giga-annum,gigayear <exasecond <zettasecond <yottasecond <ronnasecond <quettasecond
    Meronyms:quectosecond <rontosecond <yoctosecond <zeptosecond <attosecond <femtosecond <picosecond <nanosecond <microsecond <millisecond <centisecond <decisecond <second <decasecond
    You have twentyminutes to complete the test.
  4. (informal) Ashort but unspecifiedtime period.
    Synonyms:instant,jiffy,mo,moment,sec,second,tic;see alsoThesaurus:moment
    give me aminute
    Wait aminute, I’m not ready yet!
  6. A unit ofangle equal to one-sixtieth of adegree.
    Synonyms:minute of arc,sexagesm
    We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within oneminute of arc.
  7. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
    Let’s look at theminutes of last week’s meeting.
    • 2008, Pink Dandelion,The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page52:
      The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts aminute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of theminute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once theminute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.
  8. A unit of purchase on atelephone or other similarnetwork, especially acell phone network, roughly equivalent ingross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
    If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 freeminutes.
  9. A point in time; a moment.
    Synonyms:instant,moment;see alsoThesaurus:point in time
  10. Anautical or ageographicmile.
  11. An oldcoin, ahalffarthing.
  12. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Probable or Thinking Conscience.”, inDuctor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in all her Generall Measures Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience‎[1], volume 1:
      […]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended tominutes and circumstances of his passion
  13. (architecture) A fixed part of amodule.
  14. (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) Awhile or a long unspecified period of time.
    Synonyms:age,spell;see alsoThesaurus:eon
    Oh, I ain't heard that song in aminute!
    • 2010, Kenneth Ring,Letters from Palestine,page18:
      “Man, I haven’t seen you in aminute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”
    • 2010 June 10,Lil B,Complex.com‎[2]:
      I seenToo$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in aminute.
    • 2016 November 8, Ben Katai, Josh Corbin, Sharon Lennon, directed by Ben Katai,StartUp(Recapitalization) (StartUp (TV series))‎[3], season 1, episode10 (TV), spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):
      RON:I remember my first. I was aminute younger than you.[…]I remember thinking, saying to myself..."This is the first time I'm eating as a person who killed someone."
Derived terms
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Borrowings

Translations
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unit of time
short but unspecified period of time
unit of angular measure—see alsominute of angle
record of meeting
minute of use of telephone network
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Verb

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minute (third-person singular simple presentminutes,present participleminuting,simple past and past participleminuted)

  1. (transitive) Of an event, to write in amemo or theminutes of a meeting.
    I’llminute this evening’s meeting.
    • 1870 [1855 June 27], Charles Dickens, “Administrative Reform”, inSpeeches Literary and Social‎[4], page133:
      I dare say there was a vast amount ofminuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
    • 1995, Edmund Dell,The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe‎[5]:
      On 17 November 1949 Jayminuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
    • 1996, Peter Hinchliffe,The Other Battle‎[6]:
      The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Richard Peirse, was sceptical of its findings,minuting, ‘I don’t think at this rate we could have hoped to produce the damage which is known to have been achieved.’
    • 2003, David Roberts,Four Against the Arctic‎[7]:
      Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them;minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.
  2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
    • 1876 [1834], George Bancroft,History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent‎[8], volume VI, pages28–29:
      The Empress of Russia, with her own hand,minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
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Translations
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to write the minutes of
to set down a short sketch or note of; to make a brief summary of
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromLatinminūtus(“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle ofminuō(“make smaller”).

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Adjective

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minute (comparativeminuterormoreminute,superlativeminutestormostminute)

  1. Verysmall.
    Synonyms:infinitesimal,insignificant,minuscule,tiny,trace;see alsoThesaurus:tiny
    Antonyms:big,enormous,colossal,huge,significant,tremendous,vast
    They found onlyminute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
  2. Verycareful andexact, giving smalldetails.
    Synonyms:exact,exacting,excruciating,precise,scrupulous;see alsoThesaurus:meticulous
    The lawyer gave the witness aminute examination.
    • 2013 July-August,Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, inAmerican Scientist:
      The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images inminute detail.
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Translations
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very small
very careful and exact, giving small details

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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minute

  1. plural ofminuut

Esperanto

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Etymology

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Fromminuto +‎-e.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /miˈnute/
  • Rhymes:-ute
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nu‧te

Adverb

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minute

  1. Lasting for a very short period;briefly,momentarily
    • 1929,L. L. Zamenhof, edited by Johannes Dietterle,Originala Verkaro [Original Oeuvre]:
      [...] kaj de nun ni pri ĉiujminute kreskantaj projektoj absolute silentados.
      and from now on we will be completely silent about all thebriefly growing projects.

French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchminute, borrowed fromLatinminūta. Comparemenu, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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minute f (pluralminutes)

  1. minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)

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Descendants

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Interjection

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minute

  1. wait a sec!

Verb

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minute

  1. inflection ofminuter:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /miˈnu.te/
  • Rhymes:-ute
  • Hyphenation:mi‧nù‧te

Adjective

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minute

  1. feminineplural ofminuto

Anagrams

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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minūte

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofminūtus

References

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  • "minute", inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "minute", inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “minute”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

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Noun

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minute

  1. alternative form ofmynute

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMedieval Latinminūta.

Noun

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minuteoblique singular, f (oblique pluralminutes,nominative singularminute,nominative pluralminutes)

  1. minute(one sixtieth of an hour)
    Coordinate terms:segont,eure,jor,semaine,an

Descendants

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:mi‧nu‧te

Verb

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minute

  1. inflection ofminutar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Romanian

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Noun

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minute

  1. plural ofminut
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