MINUTE

minute. Minute, n. 6th part of an hour, a short abstract

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Min″ute (?; 277), n. [[LL. minuta a small portion, small coin, fr. L. minutus small: cf. F. minute. See 4th Minute.]] 1. 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. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (′); as, 10° 20′).
3. 3. A nautical or a geographic mile.
4. 4. A coin; a half farthing. Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)
5. 5. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
Minutes and circumstances of his passion. Jer. Taylor. 6. 6. A point of time; a moment.
I go this minute to attend the king. Dryden. 7. 7. 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. 8. (Arch.) 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.