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minute

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The minute is a unit of time or of angle . As a unit of time, the minute is equal to (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour or 60 seconds . In the UTC time standard , a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is ...

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n. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: min ] an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment , second , bit ] a particular point in time; "the moment ...

Usage examples of minute.

It was possible that Abraxas was nowhere Remo could reach him before the precious minutes were up.

Five minutes later the Lackawanna, Captain Marchand, going at full speed, delivered her blow also at right angles on the port side, abreast the after end of the armored superstructure.

One man had to defend voting absentee at the last minute, without having applied in advance, as the law required.

Besides the glands, both surfaces of the leaves and the pedicels of the tentacles bear numerous minute papillae, which absorb carbonate of ammonia, an infusion of raw meat, metallic salts, and probably many other substances, but the absorption of matter by these papillae never induces inflection.

As such minute doses of the salts of ammonia affect the leaves, we may feel almost sure that Drosera absorbs and profits by the amount, though small, which is present in rainwater, in the same manner as other plants absorb these same salts by their roots.

But more evidence is necessary before we fully admit that the glands of this saxifrage can absorb, even with ample time allowed, animal matter from the minute insects which they occasionally and accidentally capture.

The Academician left the room, returning a minute later with a folder.

Assuming one-twentieth gee, that meant the rock had been accelerating for only ten or eleven minutes.

Mere minutes after the decoys had completed their burns, six COREs, accelerating at a terrifying rate, suddenly lifted out of orbit toward the decoys.

Much useful comparative information was obtained during the following minute of suspended ecstasy, during which the female tongues parted into thousands of fine tentacles, exploring every accessible cavity of the male bodies.

Back in Town again, his first forays into Society had gone smoothly, though there had been a dangerous few minutes the first time he had been formally introduced to Acer Loring.

Filter off the precipitate and wash with hot water containing a little sodium acetate, dissolve it off the filter with hot dilute hydrochloric acid, add ammonia in excess, and pass sulphuretted hydrogen for five minutes.

A quick method of drying out the fingers is to place them in full strength acetone for approximately 30 minutes.

A man on Venus, unless equipped with special breathing apparatus and oxygen tanks, would die of acidosis within a few minutes.

Cook the roes for five minutes in salted and acidulated water, drain, cut in two, and arrange around the fish.