Meaning

• Abbreviation of minimal.

Meaning

• 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.

Meaning

• 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!"