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MINUTE

Volume 12 · 54 words · 1797 Edition

in geometry, the 60th part of a degree of a circle.

Minute of Time, the 60th part of an hour.

architecture, usually denotes the 60th, sometimes the 30th, part of a module. See Architecture.

Minute is also used for a short memoir, or sketch of a thing taken in writing.

MINUTIUS Felix. See Felix.