minute : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a quarter of an hour
  quarter-hour.
  

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• noun a half of an hour
  half-hour.
  

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• noun a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
  hr; hour.
  
  • the job will take more than an hour

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• noun a unit of charge equal to 60 coulombs
  

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• noun the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds
  M.M.; bpm; metronome marking.
  

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• noun frequency per minute
  counts/minute.
  

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• noun someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes
  

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• noun the latest possible moment
  eleventh hour.
  
  • money became available at the eleventh hour
  • at the last minute the government changed the rules

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• adjective satellite just before a deadline; at the last minute
  
  • last-minute arrangements

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• noun the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute; approximately 18 million kilometers
  

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• a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral.

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• noun a book in which minutes have been written
  

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• a book in which written minutes are entered.

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• a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand.

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• noun (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral)
  

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• a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning.

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• noun points to the minutes
  big hand.
  

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• the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

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• noun a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
  arcminute; minute.
  

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• noun a thin steak that can be cooked quickly
  

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Mi*nute"-jack` noun

Definitions

1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.

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• noun a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  instant; wink; blink of an eye; flash; twinkling; jiffy; heartbeat; split second; trice.
  
  • if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

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• noun rate of revolution of a motor
  rev; rpm.
  
  • the engine was doing 6000 revs

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• adjective satellite up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date
  latest.
  
  • the news is up-to-the-minute
  • the very latest scientific discoveries

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• noun the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing)
  wpm.
  

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