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noun
- 1. a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour: "we waited for twenty minutes"
- 2. a sixtieth of a degree of angular measurement (symbol: ʹ): "Delta Lyrae is a double star with a separation of over 10 minutes of arc"
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Definitions of minute. noun. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour. “he ran a 4 minute mile” synonyms: min. see more. noun. an indefinitely short time. “it only takes a minute ” synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second. see more. noun. a particular point in time. synonyms: instant, moment, second. see more. noun.
Minute, instant, moment refer to small amounts of time. A minute, properly denoting 60 seconds, is often used loosely for any very short space of time (and may be interchangeable with second ): I'll be there in just a minute.
