Dictionary Entry
minute
minute is a 6-letter English word with 20 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.). Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
- 2noun
The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10� 20').
- 3noun
A nautical or a geographic mile.
- 4noun
A coin; a half farthing.
- 5noun
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
- 6noun
A point of time; a moment.
- 7noun
The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
- 8noun
A fixed part of a module. See Module.
- 9adjective
Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
- 10present participle
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- 11adjective
Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
- 12adjective
Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
- 13noun
distance measured by the time taken to cover it
"we live an hour from the airport"
"its just 10 minutes away"
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- 14noun
a short note
"the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
- 15noun
a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
- 16noun
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
"he ran a 4 minute mile"
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- 17noun
a particular point in time
"the moment he arrived the party began"
- 18noun
an indefinitely short time
"wait just a moment"
"in a mo"
- 19adjective
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
"a minute inspection of the grounds"
"a narrow scrutiny"
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- 20adjective
infinitely or immeasurably small
"two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
"reduced to a microscopic scale"
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