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5. A very small part of anything, or anything
very small; a jot; a tittle. [Obs.]

Minutes and circumstances of his
passion.

6. A point of time; a moment.

I go this minute to attend the
king.

7. The memorandum; a record; a note to
preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a
contract; to take minutes of a conversation or
debate.

8. (Arch.) A fixed part of a module.
See Module.

&fist; Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one
eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.

Min"ute, a. Of or pertaining to a
minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive
minutes.

Minute bell, a bell tolled at intervals of a
minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. --
Minute book, a book in which written minutes
are entered. -- Minute glass, a glass
measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand.


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