Definition of minute

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Minute (n.) The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.).

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Lepidoptera :: Lepidoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored..
Scholastic :: Scholastic (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal..
Hand :: Hand (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock..
Punctated :: Punctated (a.) Dotted with small spots of color, or with minute depressions or pits..
Tittle :: Tittle (n.) A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
Comminute :: Comminute (v. t.) To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth..
Psorosperm :: Psorosperm (n.) A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarinae, in the pseudonavicula stage..
Dissect :: Dissect (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely..
Minim :: Minim (n.) Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like..
Minute-jack :: Minute-jack (n.) A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
Second :: Second (a.) The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place..
Paxillus :: Paxillus (n.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix..
Monas :: Monas (n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad..
Grain :: Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc..
Circumstantial :: Circumstantial (a.) Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
Micrometer :: Micrometer (n.) An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass..
Mould :: Mould (n.) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter..
Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot..
Protococcus :: Protococcus (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).
Eleidin :: Eleidin (n.) Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
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