minute

Forms

1.A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
- You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
2.A short but unspecified time period.(informal)
- Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
3.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.
4.A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.

1.Very small.
- They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.
2.Very careful and exact, giving small details.
- The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.

1.Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
- I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
- On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.
- I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
2.To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.

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

Doublet of menu and menudo.