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noun

  • Abbreviation of minimal.

noun

  • The lowest limit.

    "We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all time."

  • The smallest amount.

    "He always tries to get away with doing the minimum."

  • A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

    "The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth."

  • A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
  • The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

noun

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

    "You have twenty minutes to complete the test."

  • A short but unspecified time period.

    "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."

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

    "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.

    "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

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

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