Minute
1. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds. It takes 3 minutes to soft boil an
egg.
2. A short but unspecified time period. I'll be with you in a minute.
3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. Aviation charts must be
accurate to within one minute of an arc.
4. (in the plural) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting. Let's look
at the minutes of last week's meeting.
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