minutes

1. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

   You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

2. A short but unspecified time period.

   Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!

3. 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.

4. (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.

5. 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.

6. A point in time; a moment.
7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. A fixed part of a module.
11. A while or a long unspecified period of time

    Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!

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

   I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.

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

noun

The official notes kept during a meeting.