min

/mɪn/

noun

1
A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
“You have twenty minutes to complete the test.”
2
A short but unspecified time period.
“Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!”
3
A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
“We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.”
4
(chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
“Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.”
5
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.
“If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.”
6
A point in time; a moment.
7
A nautical or a geographic mile.
8
An old coin, a half farthing.
9
A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10
A fixed part of a module.
11
A while or a long unspecified period of time
“Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!”

1
The lowest limit.
“We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all time.”
2
The smallest amount.
“He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.”
3
A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
“The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth.”
4
A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
5
The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

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