minutes
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Definitions ofminutes
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
Example: "You have twenty minutes to complete the test."
- A short but unspecified time period.
Example: "Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!"
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
Synonyms: "minute of arc"
Example: "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.
Example: "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.
Example: "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
Example: "Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!"
- Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
Example: "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.
- The official notes kept during a meeting.
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