minute
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noun- 1.
A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
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 twenty minutes to complete the test.
- 2.
(informal)A short but unspecified time period.
give me a minute
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
Đồng nghĩa: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, New York minute, New York second, no time, sec, second, span, split-second, spurt, stound, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while
- 3.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: minute of arc, sexagesm, arcminute
- 4.
(in plural)(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.
- 5.
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.
- 6.
A point in time; a moment.
I conked out the minute I got home.
Đồng nghĩa: instant, moment, instant, juncture, minute, moment, occasion, point in time, sith, time
- 7.
A nautical or a geographic mile.
- 8.
An old coin, a half farthing.
- 9.
(obsolete)A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
- 10.
(architecture) A fixed part of a module.
- 11.
(Canada, US, dialectal, slang)A while or a long unspecified period of time.
Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
Đồng nghĩa: age, spell, aeon, age, ages, blue moon, coon's age, crow's age, dog's age, donkey's years, eld, eon, eternity, forever, forever and a day, interim, interlude, interval, lifetime, long haul, long run, meantime, minute, month of Sundays, spell, while, years, yonks
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verb- 1.
(transitive)Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
- 2.
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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adjective- 1.
Very small.
They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
Đồng nghĩa: infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace
- 2.
Very careful and exact, giving small details.
The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.
Đồng nghĩa: exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous, accurate, careful, comprehensive, solicitous, conscientious, exhaustive, fastidious, groundly, in-depth, intensive, letter-perfect, mindful, minute, particular, polished, precise, painstaking, punctilious, rigorous, root and branch, scrupulous, scrutinous, sedulous, strict, thorough, tight
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From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from minūta (60th of an hour; note). menu menudo.