minute

Adjective

• characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
  • a minute inspection of the grounds
    
  • a narrow scrutiny
    
  • an exact and minute report
    

• infinitely or immeasurably small
  • two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm
    
  • reduced to a microscopic scale
    

Noun

• distance measured by the time taken to cover it
  • we live an hour from the airport
    
  • its just 10 minutes away
    

• a short note
  • the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting
    

• a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree

• a particular point in time
  • the moment he arrived the party began
    

• an indefinitely short time
  • wait just a moment
    
  • in a mo
    
  • it only takes a minute
    
  • in just a bit
    

• a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
  • he ran a 4 minute mile
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  narrow , infinitesimal , hour , arcminute , minute of arc , moment , second , instant , mo , bit , min