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Minute

/minyoot/

• adjective (minutest) 1 extremely small. 2 precise and meticulous.

— ORIGIN Latin minutus ‘lessened, made small’.

/minit/

• noun 1 a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour. 2 (a minute) informal a very short time. 3 (also arc minute or minute of arc) a sixtieth of a degree of angular measurement.

— ORIGIN from Latin pars minuta prima ‘first very small part’.

Got to love that English language.

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