Minute

Quick meaning: Minute is a noun meaning A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

give me a minute

Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

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

Word Forms

• minutes
• minuting
• minuted
• minuter
• minutest

Synonyms for minute

Depending on context, synonyms include instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second.

Antonyms for minute

Common opposites include big, enormous, colossal, significant, tremendous, vast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arcminute, hour, min, atomic, atomlike, microscopical.

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