All 5 Uses of
minute
in
Man And Superman
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, according to the ideas of that time, as the enemy of God, the approach of whose vengeance is felt throughout the drama, growing in menace from minute to minute.†
Chpt Ded.
- The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, according to the ideas of that time, as the enemy of God, the approach of whose vengeance is felt throughout the drama, growing in menace from minute to minute.†
Chpt Ded.
- [Looking at his watch] I suppose you know that we have come from Hyde Park Corner to Richmond in twenty-one minutes.†
Chpt 2
- We came from Hyde Park Corner here in seventeen minutes.†
Chpt 2 *
- Then tell her what you said just now; and add that you arrived about two minutes after I had received her letter and read it.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.