| minute gun | (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral) |
minute hand
big hand | points to the minutes |
hour
minute | distance measured by the time taken to cover it, we live an hour from the airport, its justminutes away |
| minute | a short note, the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting |
minutes
proceedings
transactions | a written account of what transpired at a meeting |
| minute book | a book in which minutes have been written |
| minute steak | a thin steak that can be cooked quickly |
| four-minute man | someone who has run the mile in less that minutes |
minute
arcminute
minute of arc | a unit of angular distance equal to a th of a degree |
| ampere-minute | a unit of charge equal tocoulombs |
| light minute | the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute, approximately million kilometers |
| sidereal time | measured by the diurnal motion of stars |
sidereal day
day | the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about minutes shorter than a mean solar day |
| sidereal year | the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars |
| sidereal hour |
of a sidereal day |
| sidereal month | period between successive conjunctions with a star, . days |
hour
hr
minutes a | a period of time equal to
th of a day, the job will take more than an hour |
half-hour
minutes | a half of an hour |
quarter-hour
minutes | a quarter of an hour |
minute
min | a unit of time equal toseconds or
th of an hour, he ran a minute mile |
moment
minute second instant | a particular point in time, the moment he arrived the party began |
eleventh hour
last minute | the latest possible moment, money became available at the eleventh hour, at the last minute the government changed the rules |
moment mo
minute second bit | an indefinitely short time, wait just a moment, in a mo, it only takes a minute, in just a bit |
a blink of an eye
flash
heartbeat
instant jiffy
split second
trice
twinkling
wink
New York minute | a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat), if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash |
revolutions per minute
rpm
rev | rate of revolution of a motor, the engine was doing revs |
count per minute
counts
minute | frequency per minute |
words per minute
wpm | the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) |
beats per minute
bpm
metronome marking
M.M. | the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring inseconds |
minute
narrow | characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination, a minute inspection of the grounds, a narrow scrutiny, an exact and minute report |
| sidereal | (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars, sidereal time |
up-to-the-minute
latest | up to the immediate present, most recent or most up-to-date, the news is up-to-the-minute, the very latest scientific discoveries |
infinitesimal
minute | infinitely or immeasurably small, two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm, reduced to a microscopic scale |
| last-minute | just before a deadline, at the last minute, last-minute arrangements |
| sidereal | of or relating to the stars or constellations, sidereal bodies, the sidereal system |