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minute

/ˈmɪnɪt/

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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!"

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

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