minute

CEFRA1

/ˈmɪnɪt/

noun · adjective

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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A minute has sixty seconds.
You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond

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Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.
2024 November 15, Kristen Rogers, “Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2025
Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king.
1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe
The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.
1876 [1834], George Bancroft, History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent, volume VI, pages 28–29
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda.
2008, Pink Dandelion, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page 52

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From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.