minute

A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

• Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond
• You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

A short but unspecified time period.informal

• give me a minute
• Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

A 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.

A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.in-plural

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

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.

• If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

A point in time; a moment.

• I conked out the minute I got home.

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.obsolete

• […]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion

A fixed part of a module.

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

• 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.

• The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.

Very small.

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

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

• The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.