English Dictionary

minute

/ˈmɪnɪt/

noun

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). / (informal) A short but unspecified time period. / A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

I'll be there in a minute.

意味（1）

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

意味（2）

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

意味（3）

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.

意味（4）

(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.

意味（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.

If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.

意味（6）

A point in time; a moment.

Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.

意味（7）

A nautical or a geographic mile.

意味（8）

An old coin, a half farthing.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

[…]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion

意味（10）

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

意味（11）

(slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time

Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!