minute

You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).

Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.

The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.

2008, Pink Dandelion, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page 52:

(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.

[…]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion

1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Probable or Thinking Conscience.”, in Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in all her Generall Measures Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience, volume 1:

(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

“Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”

2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:

I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute.

RON:I remember my first. I was a minute younger than you. […]I remember thinking, saying to myself..."This is the first time I'm eating as a person who killed someone."

2016 November 8, Ben Katai, Josh Corbin, Sharon Lennon, directed by Ben Katai, StartUp(Recapitalization) (StartUp (TV series)), season 1, episode 10 (TV), spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):

(slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.

Tok Pisin: minit

→ Baluchi: منٹ (minaṭṭ)

→ Bengali: মিনিট (miniṭ)

→ Burmese: မိနစ် (mi.nac)

→ Central Dusun: minit

→ Chichewa: miniti

→ Fiji Hindi: minit

→ Fijian: miniti

→ Gujarati: મિનિટ (miniṭ)

→ Hausa: minti

→ Hindi: मिनट (minaṭ)

→ Indonesian: menit

→ Malay: minit

→ Malayalam: മിനിറ്റ് (miniṟṟŭ)

→ Maori: miniti

→ Marathi: मिनिट (miniṭ)

→ Nepali: मिनेट (mineṭ)

→ Odia: ମିନଟ (minaṭa)

→ Pashto: منټ (minëṭ)

→ Punjabi: ਮਿਨਟ (minaṭ)

→ Sinhalese: මිනිත්තුව (minittuwa)

→ Urdu: مِنَٹ (minaṭ)

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unit of angular measure — see also minute of angle

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.


minute

I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.

I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.

1870 [1855 June 27], Charles Dickens, “Administrative Reform”, in Speeches Literary and Social, page 133:

On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.

1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe:

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.’

1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle:

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.

2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic:

(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.

1876 [1834], George Bancroft, History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent, volume VI, pages 28–29:

To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

en-verb

minute (third-person singular simple present minutes, present participle minuting, simple past and past participle minuted)

minutes (present singular third-person)
minuting (participle present)
minuted (participle past)
minuted (past)

luonnostella

to set down a short sketch or note of; to make a brief summary of


minute

They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.

The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.

The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

en-adj

minute (comparative minuter or more minute, superlative minutest or most minute)

minuter (comparative)
more minute (comparative)
minutest (superlative)
most minute (superlative)

մանրամասն

very careful and exact, giving small details

Borrowed from Latin minūtus (“small", "petty”), perfect passive participle of minuō (“make smaller”).


minute

[...] kaj de nun ni pri ĉiuj minute kreskantaj projektoj absolute silentados.

1929, L. L. Zamenhof, edited by Johannes Dietterle, Originala Verkaro [Original Oeuvre]:

and from now on we will be completely silent about all the briefly growing projects.

Lasting for a very short period; briefly, momentarily


minute

minute (etymology 1, time unit, all same senses)

→ Farefare: miniti

Haitian Creole: minit

→ Romanian: minut

Inherited from Old French minute, borrowed from Latin minūta. Compare menu, an inherited doublet.


minute

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

inflection of minuter:
second-person singular imperative


minute

fro-noun

minute oblique singular, f (oblique plural minutes, nominative singular minute, nominative plural minutes)

minute oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
minutes (oblique plural)
minute (nominative singular)
minutes (nominative plural)

Middle French: minute

desctree

French: minute
→ Farefare: miniti
Haitian Creole: minit
→ Romanian: minut

→ Dutch: minuut
Afrikaans: minuut
→ Caribbean Javanese: menit
→ Papiamentu: minit, minüt, minuut
→ Trió: minut

Norman: minnute

Walloon: munute

→ Central Franconian: Menutt, Minutt

→ German: Minute, Minut
→ Czech: minuta
→ Estonian: minut

→ Lower Sorbian: minuta

→ Luxembourgish: Minutt

→ Middle English: mynute, minute, mynut, mynet, minut
English: minute
Tok Pisin: minit
Scots: meenit


minute

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of minutar:
third-person singular imperative