Crossword clues for minute
minute
- Very small
- Period of time
- Part of rpm
- Extremely small
- Type of steak
- Sixty seconds
- One hand's indication
- Clock hand
- Very hard to see
- Measure of time
- Kind of rice or steak
- Very small — period of time
- Unit of time or latitude
- Unit of time — very small
- Turn on a watch?
- Time for a commercial?
- Three-score seconds
- Three score seconds
- Second-hand circuit
- Name for the men roused by Paul Revere
- Little — bit of time
- Horal division
- Hall & Oates "Did It in a ___"
- 60 seconds
- Little wooden skewer reportedly for meat dish
- Little spike, we hear, for cut of meat
- Records timber that may be rare
- Advertising unit
- Very detailed
- Atomic
- Time piece?
- Tiny
- Trifling
- Wee
- Jiffy
- A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- An indefinitely short time
- A particular point in time
- A unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- A short note
- Distance measured by the time taken to cover it
- Very small, quiet nursing home
- Mum is going outside home very little
- Extremely small and quiet nursing home
- Small; short time
- Second home acquired by mum
- Far from developed pond dweller I own, by the sound of it?
- Little bit of time
- Record tiny stretch of time
- Tiny little child receiving letter from abroad
- Tiny couple twists at the end of dance
- Tiny child receiving letter in Greece
- Tiny amphibian of mine can be heard
- Timely indicators of Trump's inadequacy?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minute \Min"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minuting.] To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an
edict for universal tolerance.
--Bancroft.
Minute \Min"ute\, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
Minute bell, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral.
Minute book, a book in which written minutes are entered.
Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand.
Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning.
Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.
Minute \Min"ute\ (?; 277), n. [LL. minuta a small portion, small coin, fr. L. minutus small: cf. F. minute. See 4th Minute.]
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The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m. or min.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour.
--Chaucer. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10[deg] 20').
A nautical or a geographic mile.
A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)-
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle. [Obs.]
Minutes and circumstances of his passion.
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A point of time; a moment.
I go this minute to attend the king.
--Dryden. pl. 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; to read the minutes of the last meeting.
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(Arch.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.
Note: Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.
Minute \Mi*nute"\ (m[imac]*n[=u]t" or m[i^]*n[=u]t"), a. [L. minutus, p. p. of minuere to lessen. See Minish, Minor, and cf. Menu, Minuet.]
Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable; as, minute details. ``Minute drops.''
--Milton.-
Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
Syn: Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact; circumstantial; particular; detailed.
Usage: Minute, Circumstantial, Particular. A circumstantial account embraces all the leading events; a particular account includes each event and movement, though of but little importance; a minute account goes further still, and omits nothing as to person, time, place, adjuncts, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sixtieth part of an hour or degree," late 14c., from Old French minut (13c.) or directly from Medieval Latin minuta "minute, short note," from Latin minuta, noun use of fem. of minutus "small, minute" (see minute (adj.)). In Medieval Latin, pars minuta prima "first small part" was used by mathematician Ptolemy for one-sixtieth of a circle, later of an hour (next in order was secunda minuta, which became second (n.)). German Minute, Dutch minuut also are from French. Used vaguely for "short time" from late 14c. As a measure expressing distance (travel time) by 1886. Minute hand is attested from 1726.
early 15c., "chopped small," from Latin minutus "little, small, minute," past participle of minuere "to lessen, diminish" (see minus). Meaning "very small in size or degree" is attested from 1620s. Related: Minutely; minuteness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). 2 A short but unspecified time period. 3 A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. 4 (context in the plural minutes English) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting. 5 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. 6 A point in time; a moment. 7 A nautical or a geographic mile. 8 An old coin, a half farthing. 9 (context obsolete English) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit. 10 (context architecture English) A fixed part of a module. vb. 1 (context transitive English) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. 2 To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. Etymology 2
1 Very small. 2 Very careful and exact, giving small details.
WordNet
adj. infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" [syn: infinitesimal, microscopic]
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report" [syn: narrow]
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 he arrived the party began" [syn: moment, second, instant]
a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn: arcminute, minute of arc]
a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: hour]
Wikipedia
Minute is a weekly newspaper, initially right-wing but now far-right, circulated in France since 1962. Its editorial position is satirical and conservative. According to figures provided by the paper's management, it had a circulation of 40,000 copies a week in 2006. Its headquarters is in Paris.
A Minute is a unit used to measure time.
Minute may also refer to:
- Minute of arc: a unit used to measure angles
- Minute (French newspaper): a French far-right newspaper
- Minute (basketball), a statistic in basketball
- Minute to Win It, an American game show on NBC hosted by Guy Fieri and on GSN with Apolo Ohno.
A minute is a unit of time in a basketball game. There are forty-eight minutes in each NBA basketball game.
For players, the total number of minutes played in a season—and the average number of minutes played per game—are both tracked as statistics.
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 a provision to insert a negative leap second which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than four decades under this system). As a unit of angle, the minute of arc is equal to of a degree or 60 seconds (of arc). Although not an SI unit for either time or angle, the minute is accepted for use with SI units for both. The SI symbols for minute or minutes are min for time measurement, and the prime symbol after a number, e.g. 5′, for angle measurement. The prime is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time.
In contrast to the hour, the minute (and the second) does not have a clear historical background. What is traceable only is that it started being recorded in the Middle Ages due to the ability of construction of "precision" timepieces (mechanical and water clocks). However, no consistent records of the origin for the division as part of the hour (and the second of the minute) have ever been found, despite many speculations.
Historically, the word 'minute' comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part". This division of the hour can be further refined with a "second small part" (Latin: pars minuta secunda) and this is where the word 'second' comes from. For even further refinement, the term 'third' ( of a second) remains in some languages, for example Polish (tercja) and Turkish (salise), although most modern usage subdivides seconds by using decimals. The symbol notation of the prime for minutes and double prime for seconds can be seen as indicating the first and second cut of the hour (similar to how the foot is the first cut of the yard or perhaps chain, with inches as the second cut). In 1267, the medieval scientist Roger Bacon, writing in Latin, defined the division of time between full moons as a number of hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths (horae, minuta, secunda, tertia, and quarta) after noon on specified calendar dates.
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.