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What (who) is minute - definition
UNIT OF TIME
Minuite; Minute (time); Minute of time; Half a minute; 1 minute
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minute
n.
sixtieth part of an hour
1) in a minute (she'll be here in a minute)
instant
2) the last minute (at the last minute)
present time
3) this minute
4) up to the minute
minute
I. NOUN AND VERB USES
(minutes, minuting, minuted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say 'a minute' or 'minutes' when they mean a short length of time.
The pizza will then take about twenty minutes to cook...
Bye Mum, see you in a minute...
Within minutes we realized our mistake.
N-COUNT: oft num N
2.
The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it.
He'd been reading the minutes of the last meeting.
N-PLURAL: oft N of n
3.
When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it.
You don't need to minute that.
VERB: V n
4.
see also up-to-the-minute
5.
People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
Wait a minute, folks, something is wrong here...
Hey, just a minute!
= hang on
CONVENTION
6.
If you say that something will or may happen at any minute or any minute now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon.
It looked as though it might rain at any minute...
Any minute now, that phone is going to ring.
PHRASE [emphasis]
7.
If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true.
I don't believe for one minute she would have been scared...
= for a moment
PHRASE: with brd-neg, PHR with v [emphasis]
8.
A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible.
She was doing some last-minute revision for her exams...
He will probably wait until the last minute.
PHRASE: PHR n, prep PHR
9.
You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as 'one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly.
The next minute my father came in...
Jobs are there one minute, gone the next.
= the next moment
PHRASE [emphasis]
10.
If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
The minute you do this, you'll lose control...
PHRASE: PHR that [emphasis]
11.
If you say that something must be done this minute, you are emphasizing that it must be done immediately.
Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute.
= now, immediately
PHRASE [emphasis]
II. ADJECTIVE USE
(minutest)
If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small.
Only a minute amount is needed...
The party was planned in the minutest detail.
= tiny
ADJ
Minute
·noun A coin; a half farthing.
II. Minute ·noun A point of time; a moment.
III. Minute ·noun A nautical or a geographic mile.
IV. Minute ·noun A fixed part of a module. ·see Module.
V. Minute ·adj Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
VI. Minute ·noun A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
VII. Minute ·noun The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (·abbr. m.; as, 4h. 30m.).
VIII. Minute ·noun The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10' 20'').
IX. Minute ·adj Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
X. Minute ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
XI. Minute ·adj Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
XII. Minute ·noun The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
Wikipedia
Minute
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The minute is a unit of time usually equal to 1/60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system). Although not an SI unit, the minute is accepted for use with SI units. The SI symbol for minute or minutes is min (without a dot). The prime symbol is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes of time.
Examples of use of minute
1. RUMSFELD:'4; Just a minute.'4; Just a minute.'4; Just a minute.
2. FIRST HALF MINUTE BY MINUTE REPORT... 44 mins: Trinidad corner.
3. Matthew Tempest has a minute–by–minute commentary here.
4. It captured minute by minute the events that unfolded.
5. TODAY‘S NEWS Minute–by–minute coverage of today‘s PMQs.