Minute - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- a short note
adjective
an exact and minute report
Extra examples
Bake the cake for 25–30 minutes.
We waited for several minutes, but no one came to the door.
I saw him a minute ago.
Dinner will be ready in just a few minutes.
One minute it was sunny, the next it was pouring rain.
My house is just a few minutes from here.
The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting.
There were minute particles of dust in the air.
The test detected minute amounts of contamination.
The equipment is able to detect the minutest errors.
She told him what happened in minute detail.
A minute examination of the evidence
It takes me ten minutes to walk to work.
The train arrived at four minutes past eight.
He returned a few minutes later.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: minute
he/she/it: minutes
present participle: minuting
past tense: minuted
past participle: minuted
singular: minute
plural: minutes
comparative: minuter
superlative: minutest
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