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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minute hand
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each minute hand is 12 feet 7 inches long; each hour hand is almost 10 feet long.
▪ Eloise opened the glass case and adjusted the minute hand until both golden hands were on the twelve numeral.
▪ He slipped it from his wrist and wound the minute hand forward.
▪ That many trips around the clock means each minute hand has traveled the equivalent of 10, 677 miles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minute hand

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
minute hand

n. The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves once each hour and indicates the minutes.

WordNet
minute hand

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.