Minute

Noun

 * 1) A unit of time equal to sixty seconds and one-sixtieth of an hour.
 * You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
 * 1) A short but unspecified time period.
 * Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
 * 1) A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
 * We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
 * 1) (in plural minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting.
 * Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
 * 1) A minute of use of a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network.
 * If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

Related terms

 * arcminute

Verb

 * 1)  Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
 * I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
 * 1) * 1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe
 * On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
 * 1) * 1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle
 * The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Richard Peirse, was sceptical of its findings, minuting, ‘I don’t think at this rate we could have hoped to produce the damage which is known to have been achieved.’
 * 1) * 2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic
 * [...] Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them; minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.

Adjective

 * 1) Very small.
 * They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
 * 1) very careful and exact, giving small details.

Synonyms

 * infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny, trace
 * See also Thesaurus:tiny


 * exact, exacting, excruciating, precise, scrupulous
 * See also Thesaurus:meticulous

Antonyms

 * big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous, vast

Adverbs for Minute
infinitesimally; incredibly; embryonically; microscopically; unbelievably; imperceptibly; extremely; invisibly; undiscoverably; unimaginably; immeasurably; incalculably; inconceivably.

Thesaurus
Lilliputian, absolute, abundant year, academic year, accurate, all the rage, annum, attentive, baby, back-burner, balance, balance the books, bantam, bell, bissextile year, bitsy, bitty, blow-by-blow, book, breath, breathing, calendar, calendar month, calendar year, capitalize, careful, carry, carry over, carve, cast up accounts, catalog, ceaseless, century, certain, chalk, chalk up, charge off, check in, chronicle, close, close out, close the books, common year, concrete, conscientious, constant, continuous, cool, correct, coup, crack, credit, critical, cut, day, debit, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, defined, definite, delicate, demanding, detailed, determinate, different, diminutive, dinky, dispensable, distinct, distinguished, docket, document, double entry, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, entry, esoteric, especial, exact, exacting, exceptional, exigent, express, exquisite, extraordinary, fashionable, fateful moment, file, fill out, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fiscal year, fixed, flash, fortnight, full, fussy, grave, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, hep, hip, hot, hour, immaterial, impanel, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, inappreciable, incessant, incise, inconsequential, inconsiderable, index, individual, inessential, inferior, infinitesimal, inner, inscribe, insert, insignificant, instant, interminable, interval, intimate, irrelevant, item, itemized, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, jiff, jiffy, jot down, journal, journalize, juncture, kairos, keep books, latest, leap year, least, light, list, little, log, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, man-hour, mark down, matriculate, memorandum, mere, meticulous, micro, microscopic, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, mini, miniature, minor, minuscule, minutely, minutes, modern, moment, moment of truth, month, moon, narrow, negligible, newest, nice, nonessential, not vital, notation, note, note down, notes, noteworthy, now, particular, particularized, peewee, period, personal, petit, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, place upon record, point, poll, post, post up, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pregnant moment, private, proceedings, psychological moment, punctilious, punctual, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quarter, quinquennium, record, reduce to writing, refined, register, regular year, religious, respective, resume, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing, season, sec, second, semester, session, set down, several, shake, sidereal year, single entry, singular, slight, small, small-beer, smart, solar year, solipsistic, space, span, special, specific, spell, split second, stage, stretch, strict, strike a balance, stroke, stylish, subtle, summary, sun, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, technical, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, term, the time, thorough, tick, time, time lag, time of day, time signal, tiniest, tiny, transactions, transcribe, transcript, trendy, trice, trifling, trimester, trivial, twelvemonth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, unceasing, unessential, unimportant, unimpressive, unintermitted, uninterrupted, unnoteworthy, videotape, wee, week, weekday, while, wink, with it, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, year

Etymology 1
From minut:, from  minuta:

Etymology 2
From minutus:, perfect passive participle of minuo:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: دقيقة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri: dəqiqə
 * Basque: minutu
 * Belarusian: хвіліна
 * Bengali: মিনিট
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 分鐘, 分钟
 * Czech:
 * Danish: minut
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דקה
 * Hindi: मिनट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: (often used), ,
 * Irish: nóiméad, bomaite
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 分 (varies depending on preceding words)
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 분
 * Kölsch:


 * Lao:
 * Latvian: minūte
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: diba'igaans
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: minut
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: минута, минут
 * Roman: minuta, minut
 * Slovak: minúta
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
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 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: хвилина
 * Urdu: منٹ
 * Uyghur: مىنۇت
 * Vietnamese: phút
 * Volapük: minut
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: minutu, momentu
 * Czech:, minutka, vteřina, chvilka
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 * Estonian:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: רגע (rega), זמן קצר
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 * Lithuanian:, akimirka
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 * Malay: sekejap,
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 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: minuta, minutka, chwila, moment
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 * Armenian:
 * Basque: minutu
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:, angula minuto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
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 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Latvian: minūte


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 * Czech:
 * Dutch: notulen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פרוטוקול (protokol)
 * Japanese: 議事録 (ぎじろく)
 * Macedonian: записник
 * Malay: catatan,


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 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
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 * : munut, munutoù (1)
 * : minut (1)
 * : minuto
 * : minuta (1, 4)


 * : deqe, deqîqe (1-3)
 * : minut (1)
 * : מינוט (minút) (1)

Synonyms

 * instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic
 * minute of arc

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: pitää pöytäkirjaa
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:, ,


 * Interlingua: minutar
 * Macedonian: води записник
 * Russian: вести протокол (vestí protokól)
 * Scots:
 * Spanish: minutar
 * Swedish: ,

Adjective

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: menut, diminut, minúscul, menuda, diminuta, minúscula
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, , , , , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: זעיר (zair) (1), מפורט (meforat)  (2)


 * Interlingua: minuscule, minute
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Macedonian: малечок, ситен,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Macedonian:, детален,  прецизен


 * Scottish Gaelic:

Anagrams

 * minuet
 * untime

Noun

 * 1) minute

Interjection

 * 1) wait a sec!

Etymology
From minuta:

Adjective

 * 1)  tiny, minute; fine, delicate, detailed

Anagrams

 * emunti
 * munite