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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Minute \Mi*nute"\, a. [L. minutus, p. p. of minuere to lessen. See {Minish}, {Minor}, and cf {Menu}, {Minuet}.] 1. Very small little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable. ``Minute drops.'' --Milton. 2. Attentive to small things paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as a minute observer; minute observation. Syn: Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact; circumstantial; particular; detailed. Usage: {Minute}, {Circumstantial}, {Particular}. A circumstantial account embraces all the leading events; a particular account includes each event and movement, though of but little importance; a minute account goes further still and omits nothing as to person, time, place adjuncts, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Minute \Min"ute\, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes. {Minute bell}, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. {Minute book}, a book in which written minutes are entered. {Minute glass}, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand. {Minute gun}, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning. {Minute hand}, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Minute \Min"ute\ (?; 277), n. [LL. minuta a small portion, small coin, fr L. minutus small: cf F. minute. See 4th {Minute}.] 1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say minutes of an hour. --Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as 10[deg] 20'). 3. A nautical or a geographic mile. 4. A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Mark xii. 42) 5. A very small part of anything or anything very small a jot; a tittle. [Obs.] Minutes and circumstances of his passion. --Jer. Taylor. 6. A point of time; a moment. I go this minute to attend the king. --Dryden. 7. The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything as to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate. 8. (Arch.) A fixed part of a module. See {Module}. Note: Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Minute \Min"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Minuted}; p. pr & vb n. {Minuting}.] 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. --Bancroft. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: minute adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" [syn: {infinitesimal}, {microscopic}] 2: immeasurably small [syn: {atomic}, {atomlike}] 3: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report" [syn: {narrow}] n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: {min}] 2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: {moment}, {second}, {bit}] 3: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: {moment}, {second}, {instant}] 4: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn: {arcminute}, {minute of arc}] 5: a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting" 6: distance measured by the time taken to cover it "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: {hour}]
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