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Definitions of minute
  1. noun
    an indefinitely short time
    "it only takes a minute"

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  2. adjective
    infinitely or immeasurably small
    "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
  3. noun
    a particular point in time

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  4. noun
    a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
    "he ran a 4 minute mile"

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  5. noun
    distance measured by the time taken to cover it
    "its just 10 minutes away"

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  6. adjective
    characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
    "a minute inspection of the grounds" "an exact and minute report"

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  7. noun
    a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
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  8. noun
    a short note
    "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
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Definition that contains minute
  • fine minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
  • cyclops minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
  • brit minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
  • britt minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
  • midge minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
  • punky minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
  • deathwatch minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
  • subclass copepoda minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
  • water flea minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
  • protura minute wingless arthropods: telsontails
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