Minuteness - definition, transcription

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Amer.  |maɪˈnjuːtnəs|
Brit.  |maɪˈnjuːtnəs|

noun

- the property of being very small in size
hence the minuteness of detail in the painting
- great precision; painstaking attention to details
he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness

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

He had studied the case with the minuteness with which a scholar studies a dead language.

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