Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves once each hour and indicates the minutes.
WordNet
n. points to the minutes [syn: big hand]
Usage examples of "minute hand".
It passed under the minute hand, curved down and up, passed under the hour hand, and finally came to a stop exactly at the figure 12.
I stared at the big minute hand long enough to see it wobble its way through two, three, four minutes.
Holt warned the two girls behind Angel that if they kept talking she would fail both of them, but even as the minute hand ticked closer to three o’.
The minute hand on the alarm clock reached the number twelve and, at that precise moment, the street-lamp outside the window went out.
The midnight hour struck, and the minute hand crept slowly around towards one.
The receptionist looked at the clock with its minute hand standing straight up, rose with a smile, opened her boss's door, and waved them in.