min.

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of minimal.

Antonyms

noun

  1. 1

    The lowest limit.

    We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all time.
  2. 2

    The smallest amount.

    He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.
  3. 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. 4

    A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

  5. 5

    The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

Antonyms

noun

  1. 1

    A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

    You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
  2. 2

    A short but unspecified time period.

    Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
  3. 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. 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. 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. 6

    A point in time; a moment.

  7. 7

    A nautical or a geographic mile.

  8. 8

    An old coin, a half farthing.

  9. 9

    A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

  10. 10

    A fixed part of a module.

  11. 11

    A while or a long unspecified period of time

    Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

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