minute
adjective
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characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination“a minute inspection of the grounds”narrow
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infinitely or immeasurably small“two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm”infinitesimal
noun
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distance measured by the time taken to cover ithour
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a short note“the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting”
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a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degreearcminuteminute of arc
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a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour“They ran a 4 minute mile.”min
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a particular point in timesecond
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an indefinitely short timesecond