minute

noun

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
A short but unspecified time period.
Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
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.
(chiefly in the plural, minutes) 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.
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.
If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
A point in time; a moment.
A nautical or a geographic mile.
An old coin, a half farthing.
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
A fixed part of a module.
A while or a long unspecified period of time
Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

verb

Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

adjective

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

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