n A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
n (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
n A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
n (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
n A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
n A point in time; a moment.
n A nautical or a geographic mile.
n An old coin, a half farthing.
n (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
n (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
n (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time
v (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
v To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
adj Very small.
adj Very careful and exact, giving small details.