min.

Abbreviation of minimal.

The lowest limit.

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

The smallest amount.

“He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.”

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.”

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

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

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

“You have twenty minutes to complete the test.”

A short but unspecified time period.

“Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!”

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.”

(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.”

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.”

A point in time; a moment.

A nautical or a geographic mile.

An old coin, a half farthing.

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

A fixed part of a module.

A while or a long unspecified period of time

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