minutes
/ˈmɪnɪts/ · noun
Meaning
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A point in time; a moment.
- Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
- To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- The official notes kept during a meeting.
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