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Adjective minute has 3 senses
- infinitesimal, minute, microscopic - infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
Antonyms: large, big (indirect, via small, little)
Antonyms: large, big (indirect, via small, little)
- atomic, atomlike, minute - immeasurably small
Antonyms: macroscopic, macroscopical, large (indirect, via microscopic)
- minute, narrow - characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
Antonym: careless (indirect, via careful)
Noun minute has 6 senses
- minute, min - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"
--1 is a kind of time unit, unit of time
--1 is a part of hour, hr, 60 minutes
--1 has parts: second, sec, s
- moment, minute, second, bit - an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
--2 is a kind of time
--2 has particulars:
- moment, minute, second, instant - a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
--3 is a kind of point, point in time
--3 has particulars:
- minute, arcminute, minute of arc - a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
--4 is a kind of angular unit
--4 is a part of degree, arcdegree
--4 has parts: second, arcsecond
- minute - a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
--5 is a kind of note
- hour, minute - distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
--6 is a kind of distance
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