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

1. noun. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
2. noun. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10� 20').
3. noun. A nautical or a geographic mile.
4. noun. A coin; a half farthing.
5. noun. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
6. noun. A point of time; a moment.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. A fixed part of a module. See Module.
9. adjective. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
10. present participle. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
11. adjective. Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
12. adjective. Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
13. noun. distance measured by the time taken to cover it

    "we live an hour from the airport"

    "its just 10 minutes away"

    Synonyms: hour

14. noun. a short note

    "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"

15. noun. a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree

    Synonyms: arcminute

16. noun. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

    "he ran a 4 minute mile"

    Synonyms: min

17. noun. a particular point in time

    "the moment he arrived the party began"

    Synonyms: instant, moment, second

18. noun. an indefinitely short time

    "wait just a moment"

    "in a mo"

    Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second

19. adjective. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination

    "a minute inspection of the grounds"

    "a narrow scrutiny"

    Synonyms: narrow

20. adjective. infinitely or immeasurably small

    "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"

    "reduced to a microscopic scale"

    Synonyms: infinitesimal

Synonyms

hour, arcminute, min, instant, moment, second, bit, mo, narrow, infinitesimal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in minute:

minuet, munite, mutine, untime

Common word forms

minuted, minuter, minutes, minutely, minutest, minuting, minuteness

Words from these letters

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