minute

About 36.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

   You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

2. noun A short but unspecified time period.

   give me a minute

3. noun A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

   We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.

4. noun A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

   Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.

5. noun A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

   If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

6. noun A point in time; a moment.

   I conked out the minute I got home.

7. noun A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. noun An old coin, a half farthing.

Similar words

arcminute minute of arc hour min atomic atomlike microscopical microscopic second moment

Often followed by

and or of to he in i later the

Word family

in a minute minuted minuteness minutenesses minuter minutes minutest minuting within minutes