minute

Signification

Noun

1. A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
2. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
4. A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
5. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
6. A point in time; a moment.
7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. A fixed part of a module.
11. (slang) A while or a long unspecified period of time

Verb

1. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Adj

1. Very small.
2. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmɪnɪt/

Étymologie

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

Phrases

The sun thought for a minute .

Le soleil réfléchit une minute.