Minute (?; 277), n. [LL. minuta a small portion, small coin, fr. L. minutus small: cf. F. minute. See 4th Minute.]
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1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m. or min.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
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Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer.
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2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10° 20').
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3. A nautical or a geographic mile.
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4. A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)
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5. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle. [Obs.]
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Minutes and circumstances of his passion. Jer. Taylor.
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6. A point of time; a moment.
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I go this minute to attend the king. Dryden.
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7. pl. The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate; to read the minutes of the last meeting.
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8. (Arch.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.
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&hand_; Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.
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Minute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minuting.] To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
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The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance. Bancroft.
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