min.
Dictionary
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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