minute

Definitions

• 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) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• A unit of purchase on a telephone or other 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) A while or a long unspecified period of time