Definition of minut
1. minute [ n ] a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
Examples:
"he ran a 4 minute mile"
(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)
John_Powell , batting for Adair , fanned after fouling off two 2 - and 2 pitches , and Buddy_Barker , up for Stepanovich , bounced_out sharply to Jerry_Lumpe at second to end the 2 - hour and - 27 - minute contest .
The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run .
(The Dallas Morning News,...)
He missed the 1955 season because of an operation on the ailing knee , then played 77 minutes in 1956 .
The game players saw the Air_Force film Monday , ran for 30_minutes , then went in , while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes .
(Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)
The Union_Pacific_Railroad streamliner , City_of_San_Francisco , stopped in Ogden , Utah , for a_few minutes .
Synonyms minute min Related Terms time_unit hour second2. minute [ n ] an indefinitely short time
Examples:
"wait just a moment"
"it only takes a minute"
"in just a bit"
(George Harmon Coxe, Error of Judgement....)
A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car , and a_few minutes later he found a parking_place across the street from his apartment .
Synonyms moment minute second bit Related Terms time blink_of_an_eye3. minute [ a ] infinitely or immeasurably small
Examples:
"two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
"reduced to a microscopic scale"
(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)
Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists_of minute waves of energy .
(M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)
This was later known to be the result of concentrating the minute amount of complete antibody found in these sera ; when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal_to that of the original serum sample , no complete antibody activity could be detected .
(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)
Thus cortico-fugal discharges induced by topical application of strychnine to a minute area in the neocortex summate with spikes present in the hypothalamus and cause increased convulsive discharges .
(William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)
Instead , he constantly became lost in parts and components of them , confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects , and_so_on , unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in_question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours .
Synonyms minute microscopic infinitesimal Related Terms small4. minute [ n ] a particular point in time
Examples:
"the moment he arrived the party began"
(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)
The long minute before he reached effective cover seemed endless .
Synonyms moment instant minute second Related Terms point time climax pinpoint eleventh_hour moment_of_truth moment_of_truth psychological_moment5. minute [ a ] immeasurably small
Synonyms atomlike minute atomic Related Terms microscopic6. minute [ n ] a short note
Examples:
"the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
7. minute [ a ] characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
Examples:
"a minute inspection of the grounds"
"a narrow scrutiny"
"an exact and minute report"
8. minute [ n ] a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
Synonyms minute_of_arc arcminute minute Related Terms angular_unit degree second9. minute [ n ] distance measured by the time taken to cover it
Examples:
"we live an hour from the airport"
"its just 10 minutes away"
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