minute

IPA: mˈɪnʌt

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
(informal) A short but unspecified time period.
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
A point in time; a moment.
A nautical or a geographic mile.
An old coin, a half farthing.
(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
(architecture) A fixed part of a module.
(slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time

(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Examples of "minute" in Sentences

The first runs 1 minute while the other two are ½-minute each.
"Was this wound which you characterize as minute a recent one?"
If you are in a similar situation, now, today, this minute is the perfect time to get back on track.
We don't know about you, but the only kind of crunch we want to think about at the minute is an afternoon custard cream!
In the NBA, a minute is a lifetime, said Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich, who scored 18 points and pestered Celtics captain Paul Pierce defensively.
A Homeland Security official acknowledges there were a number of what he calls minute mentions without any details, but he would not elaborate.
Cloud Net users just pay for calls, at 0. 9p per minute to landlines and 9. 0p per minute* to mobiles and also benefit from low cost international calls.
The safety officials said there was "no immediate health hazard" to residents from the leaks, which they described as "minute," and people were urged to stay calm.
The train moves a mile a minute; multiply that velocity by eighteen and it becomes eighteen miles a _minute_, but we must further multiply it by sixty to make it eighteen miles a _second_.
The people in the country who are all furnished with arms and have what they call minute companies in every town ready to march on any alarm had a signal, it's supposed, by a light from one of the steeples in town, upon the troops embarking.