Minute - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈmɪnɪt|  American pronunciation of the word minute
Brit.  |ˈmɪnɪt|  British pronunciation of the word minute

noun

- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
he ran a 4 minute mile
- an indefinitely short time (syn: bit, mo, moment, second)
it only takes a minute
- a particular point in time (syn: instant, moment, second)
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- a short note
the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it (syn: hour)
its just 10 minutes away

adjective

- infinitely or immeasurably small (syn: infinitesimal)
two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination (syn: narrow)
a minute inspection of the grounds
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

verb
I/you/we/they: minute
he/she/it: minutes
present participle: minuting
past tense: minuted
past participle: minuted
noun
singular: minute
plural: minutes
adjective
comparative: minuter
superlative: minutest
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