Definition of minute in English English dictionary
- very careful and exact, giving small details
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds and one-sixtieth of an hour
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
- Very small
They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
- Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting
Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them; minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.
- (in plural minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting
Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
- A minute of use of a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network
If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
- 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 short but unspecified time period
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!.
- exceedingly small in extent or quantity
- {a} small, little, trifling, exact, nice
- {v} to set down in short lines, to note
- {n} 6th part of an hour, a short abstract
- extremely small
a minute fraction of an inch.
- measure used for small amounts of time -- "After how many minutes in the microwave should the pasta be stirred?" (226)
- Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable
- a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting" a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report
- {f} record the proceedings of a meeting; make a memorandum
- A unit of measure for relatively small angles that are equal to 1/60 of a degree
- {s} of a minute or minutes; occurring in a minute; instant
- A coin; a half farthing
- immeasurably small
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting
- Mainframe equivalent of a month ("I haven;t had this much fun in minutes!") RB: 1
- as, 4 h
- A unit of time One minute equals 60 seconds (Time may also be designated by means of superscripts, as in 9m30x, where there otherwise will be no confusion with abbreviations )
- {i} unit of time equal to 60 seconds, 1/60 of an hour; moment, unspecified short amount of time; memo, protocol, memorandum
- Abbrev
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
- ) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (′); as, 10° 20′)
- The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- One degree may be divided into 60 minutes Therefore, there are 360 x 60 = 21,600 arc minutes in a circle
- an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
- a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report
- The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"
- An integer from 0 to 59 This argument is optional
- Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes
- A point of time; a moment
- the 60th part of a degree
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of
- A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle
- infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
- 30 m
- A nautical or a geographic mile
- {s} tiny, extremely small; trivial, petty; specific; accurate, precise
- a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
- A fixed part of a module
- Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation
- minim
- minute hand
- The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves once each hour and indicates the minutes
- minute hands
- plural form of minute hand
- minute of angle
- An angle, one sixtieth (1/60th) of a degree, used by shooters as a measurement of accuracy. One minute of angle is roughly equal to 1 inch at 100 yards distance
- minute of arc
- An angle, one sixtieth (1/60th) of a degree
- minute repeater
- a device, in a watch, in which the current time is announced by means of a combination of sounds that represent the hour, quarter hour, and minute; usually activated by a button
- minute 1
- A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say `a minute' or `minutes' when they mean a short length of time. The pizza will then take about twenty minutes to cook Bye Mum, see you in a minute Within minutes we realized our mistake
- minute 1
- People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something. Wait a minute, folks, something is wrong here Hey, just a minute! = hang on
- minute 1
- The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it. He'd been reading the minutes of the last meeting
- minute 1
- emphasis You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as `one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly. The next minute my father came in Jobs are there one minute, gone the next. = the next moment
- minute 1
- emphasis If you say that something must be done this minute, you are emphasizing that it must be done immediately. Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute. = now, immediately
- minute 1
- emphasis If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true. I don't believe for one minute she would have been scared = for a moment
- minute 1
- emphasis If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing. The minute you do this, you'll lose control
- minute 1
- When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it. You don't need to minute that. see also up-to-the-minute
- minute 1
- emphasis If you say that something will or may happen at any minute or any minute now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon. It looked as though it might rain at any minute Any minute now, that phone is going to ring
- minute 1
- A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible. She was doing some last-minute revision for her exams He will probably wait until the last minute
- minute 2
- If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small. Only a minute amount is needed The party was planned in the minutest detail. = tiny
- minute book
- A book maintained in state court that contains minute entries of all hearings and trial conducted by the judge
- minute book
- a book in which minutes have been written
- minute book
- (1) A record of the proceedings of either House that contains a brief outline of proceedings as they occur The minute book is used to prepare the Journal (2) A committee record in the form of notes or brief summary of the committee's proceedings
- minute book
- A book maintained by the courtroom deputy (bailiff), which contains minute entries of all hearings and trial conducted by the judge
- minute book
- A binder or book containing corporate records, documents, registers and resolutions of the corporation All corporations must maintain an up-to-date minute book pursuant to statute
- minute book
- A document consisting of the condensed daily floor actions of the Senate, committee reports, and referrals
- minute book
- An official book or equivalent file kept by the clerk for the purpose of recording the actions and decisions of the court (i e , the minutes of the court) The court speaks only through its signed (by the trial judge) minutes and no orders, judgment, or decree is effective for any purpose until it is spread upon the minutes The minutes must include proper captions to establish the jurisdiction of the court, and must be signed by the trial judge
- minute book
- book in which the schedules for official company meetings and assemblies are written
- minute gun
- (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral)
- minute hand
- the long thin piece of metal that points to the minutes on a clock or watch hour hand
- minute hand
- points to the minutes
- minute hand
- larger hand on the clock that indicates the minutes
- minute steak
- steak that can be prepared very quickly
- minute steak
- a thin steak that can be cooked quickly
- mile a minute
- (deyim) Very fast. (*Typically: go ~; move ~; talk ~; travel ~.)
- New York minute
- An instant; a very short time
- just a minute
- A short period of time, typically anywhere from several seconds to several minutes or more
- just a minute
- Stop; wait. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes the previous speaker or the proceedings to stop so that he or she can comment on what has been said or has happened so far
- just a minute
- Only one minute; a passage of time 60 seconds in duration
- last minute
- An arbitrary (non-specific) point in time, too close to a deadline to reasonably begin a critical task
I like to do everything at the last minute. It does tend to make me late for things, though.
- last minute
- Very close to a deadline
That last minute revision really paid off in the exam!.
- last-minute
- Just before too late, in the nick of time
He got there at the last-minute, but he arrived before they closed.
- laugh a minute
- A funny thing or person
- minutely
- With attention to tiny details
- minutely
- On a minute scale
- minutes
- The official notes kept during a meeting
- minutes
- plural form of minute
- not a minute too soon
- at the last possible moment; just in time
- one-minute warning
- In the AFL, a warning given with one minute to go before the end of a half, after which special rules apply, eg, stoppage of the game clock after very first down
- talk a mile a minute
- to speak quickly or excessively
They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute and then went home and phoned each other!.
- there's a sucker born every minute
- There are a great number of fools in the world, and there always be
- three-minute warning
- A timeout and warning given to the coaches with three minutes to go before the end of each half; after this point, the clock stops at the end of every play. Analogous to the two-minute warning of American football
- twenty-minute egg
- A very hard-boiled person
'A stinker?'No, he said, it wasn't a stinker.'A tough baby?''No.''A twenty-minute egg?''That was it, sir. Mr Runkle is a twenty-minute egg.'.
- two-minute silence
- a mark of respect in which all normal activity ceases and people stand in silent thought for two minutes; held regularly at 11 am on Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and on other occasions, to remember the dead
Note: one- and three-minute silences are relatively uncommon.
- two-minute silences
- plural form of two-minute silence
- two-minute warning
- In the NFL, a timeout and warning given to the coaches with two minutes to go before the end of each half
- up-to-the-minute
- including the very latest information
An up-to-the-minute news report.
- up-to-the-minute
- modern, contemporary
She was wearing up-to-the-minute fashion.
- yester-minute
- The very recent past; minutes ago
- just a minute
- hold on, just a moment
- minutely
- {a} to a small point, exactly, nicely
- minutely
- {a} done every minute, short
- minuteness
- {n} smallness, exactness, carefulness
- Revolutions per minute
- Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, r/min, or r·min−1) is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis. It is used as a measure of rotational speed of a mechanical component
- a mile a minute
- (deyim) Very fast. (*Typically: go ~; move ~; talk ~; travel ~.)
- just a minute
- Used to ask sb to wait for a short time
- talk a mile a minute
- (deyim) Speak quickly or excessively
- New York minute
- An extremely short period of time: "If we could find that would work as well, we'd do it in a New York minute" (Jonathan Golden)
- Pages Per Minute
- inexact unit of measurement which estimates the printing speed of a printer, PPM
- Revolutions Per Minute
- number of times that a something revolves in the space of a minute
- ampere-minute
- a unit of charge equal to 60 coulombs
- at the last minute
- during the final moment
- beats per minute
- the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds
- count per minute
- frequency per minute
- cubic feet per minute
- A measure of the volume of a substance flowing through air within a fixed period of time With regard to indoor air, refers to the amount of air, in cubic feet, that is exchanged with indoor air in a minute's time, i e , the air exchange rate
- cubic feet per minute
- is a standard measurement of airflow that indicates how many cubic feet of air pass by a stationary point in one minute
- cubic feet per minute
- CFM An airflow measurement of volume (099)
- four-minute man
- someone who has run the mile is less that 4 minutes
- half a minute
- period of 30 seconds
- hang on a minute!
- wait for a moment!
- in a New York minute
- right away, immediately
- in a minute
- in a moment, shortly
- last-minute
- see minute. happening or done as late as possible before something else happens
- last-minute
- just before a deadline; at the last minute; "last-minute arrangements
- last-minute decision
- decision made at the last possible moment
- last-minute touch
- final repair, change made when there is little time left
- light minute
- the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute; approximately 18 million kilometers
- lines per minute
- lpm, measure of the speed of a computer printer or scanner
- minuted
- past of minute
- minutely
- You use minutely to indicate that something is done in great detail. The metal is then minutely examined to ensure there are no cracks
- minutely
- In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely
- minutely
- You use minutely to indicate that the size or extent of something is very small. The benefit of an x-ray far outweighs the minutely increased risk of cancer
- minutely
- in minute detail; "our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
- minutely
- in minute detail; "our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses"
- minutely
- meticulously, exactingly, scrupulously, diligently, thoroughly, in detail
- minutely
- Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing
- minutely
- At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly
- minuteness
- The quality of being minute
- minuteness
- The property of being minute
- minuteness
- {i} tininess; detailed aspect; triviality; precision
- minuteness
- the property of being very small in size
- minuter
- comparative of minute
- minutes
- {i} notes of the proceedings of a meeting, protocol
- minutes
- Meeting Minutes are actually legal documents that are supposed to be kept and approved for every HOA meeting They are to be made available to any member of a HOA who wishes to see them during normal business hours of operation at the HOA main office The right to inspect the minutes also included the right to copy them
- minutes
- Project minutes are a concise collection of resolutions, action items, and issues that promote accountability The resolution and action items each have a completion date and the name of the person responsible
- minutes
- A written record which details the events of the corporation These records should be kept in the corporation's or LLC's record book
- minutes
- official record of proceedings of a meeting
- minutes
- A written record of memoranda or notes which detail the events of the corporation and it acts and transactions These records should be kept in the corporation's record book
- minutes
- A written record of the proceedings of a committee By Oregon statute, the official record of a meeting is the tape recording of its proceedings; the written record accompanying it serves as an index to the contents of the tapes
- minutes
- A written record detailing the proceedings of a shareholders or directors meeting
- minutes
- A record of what takes place in court
- minutes
- The record of the proceedings of a meeting of shareholders or board of directors, usually prepared and signed by the corporate secretary
- minutes
- A record of what the group did or accomplished at a meeting; should reflect who attended the meeting, what content was discussed, what was decided, who agreed to take on what responsibilities, and what the group plans to do next; usually taken by the group's secretary
- minutes
- Memoranda or notes of a transaction or proceeding A memorandum of what takes place in the court, made by the attorney of the court
- minutes
- An accurate record of the proceedings (See Journal)
- minutes
- An accurate record of the proceedings (see Daily Journal)
- minutes
- Memorandum of a transaction or proceeding
- minutes
- The written record of proceedings of a deliberative body
- minutes
- A written record which details the events of the corporation These records should be kept in the corporation's, or LLC's record book
- minutes
- The official (permanent) record of a court proceeding; e g , what witnesses appeared, what motions were made, and what findings were reached (see Transcripts)
- minutes
- a written account of what transpired at a meeting
- minutes
- The corporate minutes are the written record of transactions taken or authorized by the board of directors or shareholders These are usually kept in the corporate minute book in diary fashion
- minutes
- Written records of formal proceedings of stockholders and directors meetings
- minutes
- Memoranda or notes of a proceeding [SAA]
- minutes
- Minutes of the Legislative Council for wach sitting day
- minutes
- - Official records of proceedings kept for all Quaker business meetings (preparative, monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings), along with their committees
- minutes
- A chronological record of the proceedings of and actions taken at a meeting
- minutes
- min
Please wait for five minutes.
- Please wait five minutes.
I am afraid your watch is two minutes slow.
- I'm afraid your watch is two minutes slow.
- minutest
- Smallest, littlest, tinyest
- minuting
- present participle of minute
- revolutions per minute
- rate of revolution of a motor; "the engine was doing 6000 revs
- single minute exchange of die
- (Ticaret) (SMED) The goal of reducing setup times to under ten minutes
- the minute
- the moment that -, right away once -
- the minute that
- the moment that -, right away once
- there's one born every minute
- there are plenty of suckers in the world, there will always be enough naive people that others can cheat or take advantage of
- to the minute
- exactly, precisely
- up to the minute
- updated, up to date
- up-to-the-minute
- up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date; "the news is up-to-the-minute"; "the very latest scientific discoveries
- up-to-the-minute
- Up-to-the-minute information is the latest information that you can get about something. 24 hours a day up-to-the-minute instant news Computers give them up-to-the-minute information on sales and stocks
- verb minute 3
- to make an official note of something in the record of a meeting
- words per minute
- wpm, number of words done in the period of one minute (i.e. typed, read, or written words)
- words per minute
- the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing)