• Czech: minuta,
• Dutch: minuut,
• Esperanto: minuto
• Finnish: minuutti,
• French: minute
• German: Minute,
• Greek: μοίρα (míra)
• Hebrew: דקת קשת
• Latvian: minūte
• Lithuanian: minutė
• Norwegian: minutt,
• Polish: minuta
• Portuguese: minuto
• Russian: минута
• Slovene: minuta,
• Spanish: minuto,
• Swedish: minut, bågminut

• Czech: zápis
• Dutch: notulen (p)
• Finnish: pöytäkirja
• French: procès-verbal
• Greek: πρωτόκολλο, καταγραφή
• Hebrew: פרוטוקול (protokol)
• Japanese: 議事録 (ぎじろく)
• Malay: catatan,
• Maltese: minuta,
• Norwegian: protokoll,
• Polish: protokół, notatka
• Portuguese: ata
• Russian: протокол
• Swedish: protokoll,

Translations to be checked

• Breton|Breton: munut , munutoù (1)
• Catalan|Catalan: minut ^ (1)
• Ido|Ido: minuto
• Interlingua|Interlingua: minuta (1, 4)
• Kurdish|Kurdish: deqe, deqîqe (1-3)
• ttbc Romanian: minut (1)
• ttbc Spanish: minuta (4)
• ttbc Yiddish: מינוט (minút) (1)

Synonyms

• (short, unspecified period of time): instant, mo, moment, sec, second, tic
• (unit of angular measure): minute of arc

Verb

1. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

   I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.

Translations

Quotations

• 1995, Edmund Dell, The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=us6DpQrcaVEC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&sig=8WYGZFKFxIhE4WPCpVkzDvHpO1A

  On 17 November 1949 Jay minuted Cripps, arguing that trade liberalization on inessentials was socially regressive.

• 1996, Peter Hinchliffe, The Other Battle http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=vxBK8kHLTyIC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&sig=lXg1Kvn_f1KsmB4gdOv51h5nu8I

  The Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Richard Peirse, was sceptical of its findings, minuting, ‘I don’t think at this rate we could have hoped to produce the damage which is known to have been achieved.’

• 2003, David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=yPsgKV7zo_kC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&sig=WNGXG6bM-ja8NDueqgtdNrCkslM

  [...] Mr. Klingstadt, chief Auditor of the Admiralty of that city, sent for and examined them very particularly concerning the events which had befallen them; minuting down their answers in writing, with an intention of publishing himself an account of their extraordinary adventures.

Pronunciation 2

• /maɪˈnjuːt/
• /maI'nju:t/
• /mɪ'nɪt/
• Rhymes: -njuːt, -nɪt

Etymology 2

From minutus.

Adjective

1. Very small.

   They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.

2. very careful and exact, giving small details.

Synonyms

• infinitesimal, insignificant, minuscule, tiny

Antonyms

• big, enormous, colossal, huge, significant, tremendous

Translations

French

Etymology

From minuta.

Pronunciation

Noun

fr-noun f

1. minute

Interjection

minute! (or minute papillon)

1. let a moment!

Italian

Adjective

1. tiny, minute; fine, delicate, detailed

A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle.

Time

The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. Some rare minutes have 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit, however it is accepted for use with SI units.

The symbol for minute or minutes is min.

The fact that an hour contains 60 minutes is probably due to influences from the Babylonians, who used a base-60 or sexagesimal counting system.

Geometry

In geometry, the minute is a unit of angle, 1/60th of a degree. It is also known as a minute of angle or minute of arc and can further be divided into 60 seconds of arc.

The symbol for a minute of arc is a prime (′). For example, fifteen minutes could be written 15′. However, more commonly an apostrophe, or single quote (U+0027), is used.

Astronomy

In astronomy, the minute is a unit of angle, the minute of right ascension. It is equal to 1/60th of an hour of right ascension and can be further divided into 60 seconds of right ascension.

The symbol for a minute of right ascension is min. The Earth turns on its polar axis through fifteen minutes of arc in every minute of sidereal time. One minute of arc at the Earth's equator is approximately one nautical mile.

Origin

The first division was originally known as a "prime minute", from Latin "(pars) minuta prima", meaning "first minute (i.e. small) part (or division)" of the hour. Likewise, the second was known as a "second minute", meaning "the second small division" of the hour.

References

• Henry Campbell Black, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, entry on Minute. West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1991.
• Eric W. Weisstein. "Arc Minute." From MathWorld -- A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArcMinute.html
• Definitions of the SI Units

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