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a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting" a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report" careful distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" small immeasurably small microscopic |
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