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[ noun ] a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
Synonyms Examples "he ran a 4 minute mile" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)John_Powell , batting for Adair , fanned after fouling off two 2 - and 2 pitches , and Buddy_Barker , up for Stepanovich , bounced_out sharply to Jerry_Lumpe at second to end the 2 - hour and - 27 - minute contest . The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run . (The Dallas Morning News,...)He missed the 1955 season because of an operation on the ailing knee , then played 77 minutes in 1956 . The game players saw the Air_Force film Monday , ran for 30_minutes , then went in , while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The Union_Pacific_Railroad streamliner , City_of_San_Francisco , stopped in Ogden , Utah , for a_few minutes . |
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[ noun ] an indefinitely short time
Examples "wait just a moment" "it only takes a minute" "in just a bit" Used in print (George Harmon Coxe, Error of Judgement....)A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car , and a_few minutes later he found a parking_place across the street from his apartment . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] infinitely or immeasurably small
Synonyms Examples "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm" "reduced to a microscopic scale" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists_of minute waves of energy . (M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)This was later known to be the result of concentrating the minute amount of complete antibody found in these sera ; when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal_to that of the original serum sample , no complete antibody activity could be detected . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Thus cortico-fugal discharges induced by topical application of strychnine to a minute area in the neocortex summate with spikes present in the hypothalamus and cause increased convulsive discharges . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)Instead , he constantly became lost in parts and components of them , confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects , and_so_on , unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in_question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a particular point in time
Examples "the moment he arrived the party began" Used in print (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)The long minute before he reached effective cover seemed endless . |
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[ noun ] a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
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