minute🔊

(Q7727)A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

(informal) A short but unspecified time period. +

(Q209426)A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. +

(minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

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.

A point in time; a moment. +

A nautical or a geographic mile.

An old coin, a half farthing.

(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

(dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time. +

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

To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Very small. +

Very careful and exact, giving small details. +