Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
2. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
4. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
5. 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.
6. A point in time; a moment.
7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. An old coin, a half farthing.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond

You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.

give me a minute

Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

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

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

Word Forms

• minutes
• minuting
• minuted
• minuter
• more minute
• minutest
• most minute

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