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MINU'TE, a. [L. minutus.]

1. Very small,little or slender; of very small bulk or size; small in consequence; as a minute grain of sand; a minute filament. The blood circulates through very minute vessels. Minute divisions of a subject often perplex the understanding. Minute details are tedious.

2. Attending to small things; critical; as minute observation.


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MINU'TE, a. [L. minutus.]

1. Very small,little or slender; of very small bulk or size; small in consequence; as a minute grain of sand; a minute filament. The blood circulates through very minute vessels. Minute divisions of a subject often perplex the understanding. Minute details are tedious.

2. Attending to small things; critical; as minute observation.

MI-NUTE, a. [L. minutus; Fr. menu, W. main, small. See Mince.]

  1. Very small, little or slender; of very small bulk or size. Small in consequcnce; as, a minute grain of sand; a minute filament. The blood circulates through very minute vessels. Minute divisions of a subject often perplex the understanding. Minute details are tedious.
  2. Attending to small things; critical; as, minute observation.

MIN-UTE, n. [min'it; L. minutum, that is, a small portion.]

  1. A small portion of time or duration, being the sixtieth part of an hour. Since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. – Franklin.
  2. In geometry, the sixtieth part of a degree of a circle.
  3. In architecture, the sixtieth, but sometimes the thirtieth part of a module. – Encyc.
  4. A space of time indefinitely small. I will be with you in a minute, or in a few minutes, that is, in a short time.
  5. A short sketch of any agreement or other subject, taken in writing; a note to preserve the memory of any thing; as to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.

MIN'UTE, v.t. [min'it.]

To set down a short sketch or note of any agreement or other subject in writing. Spectator.


Min"ute
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)

    Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer.

  2. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.

    Minute bell, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. -- Minute book, a book in which written minutes are entered. -- Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand. -- Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning. -- Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

  3. To set down a short sketch or note of] to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

    The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance. Bancroft.

  4. Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.

    "Minute drops." Milton.
  5. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (***prime]); as, 10° 20***prime]).
  6. Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

    Syn. -- Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact; circumstantial; particular; detailed. -- Minute, Circumstantial, Particular. A circumstantial account embraces all the leading events; a particular account includes each event and movement, though of but little importance; a minute account goes further still, and omits nothing as to person, time, place, adjuncts, etc.

  7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
  8. A coin; a half farthing.

    [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)
  9. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.

    [Obs.]

    Minutes and circumstances of his passion. Jer. Taylor.

  10. A point of time; a moment.

    I go this minute to attend the king. Dryden.

  11. 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.
  12. A fixed part of a module. See Module.

    * Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.

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