minute

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!”

Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

“I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.”

To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Very small.

“They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.”

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

“The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.”