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nute
Plural
minutes
1
each of the sixty parts that creates one hour and is made up of sixty seconds
- I like to take a short break every 30 minutes of studying.
- I need a minute to think about your question before I respond.
- I'll be ready in a minute, just give me a moment.
- The bus will arrive in a few minutes, so we need to be at the bus stop.
- The elevator arrived after a couple of minutes of waiting.
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an unspecified short period of time
- I'll be ready in a minute; just give me a moment to grab my things.
- She paused for a minute to collect her thoughts before responding to the question.
- It only took a minute for the news to spread throughout the office.
- Just wait a minute; I need to finish this task before we leave.
3
a specific moment in time
- At that minute, everything changed for her when she received the unexpected news.
- Right this minute, we are experiencing a major breakthrough in the project.
- At that minute, he realized he had forgotten his keys.
- The minute the clock struck midnight, the celebration began.
- She knew, in that minute, that her life would never be the same.
4
a linear distance determined by the time it takes to travel
- The navigator recorded the distance in minutes.
- The explorer traveled a dozen minutes along the coast.
- The river's bend was just a few minutes away.
- They estimated the minutes between landmarks.
- The logbook noted each minute of the voyage.
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a written record summarizing the proceedings and decisions made
- She was responsible for taking the minute during the meeting.
- The minute detailed all the decisions made by the board.
- He reviewed the minute to prepare for the next discussion.
- The secretary read the previous meeting's minute aloud.
- The minute noted the agreement to increase the budget.
6
a unit of angular measurement equal to one-sixtieth of a degree
- Each minute on the protractor represents 1/60 of a degree.
- The telescope's alignment required precision to the nearest minute.
- Cartographers marked longitudes and latitudes in minutes.
- The surveyor recorded angles in degrees and minutes.
- The satellite's position was tracked to a few minutes of arc.
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