All 26 Uses of
minute
in
Dune
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Halleck watched the action, turned at the last minute to let the blunted blade pass his chest.†
Book 1
- "Your father will be here any minute," Yueh said.†
Book 1
- The second shuttle's due any minute with my staff reserves.†
Book 1
- The house would be swarming with Hawat's men in a minute.†
Book 1
- Frequently, you have no more than fifteen or twenty minutes.†
Book 1
- Wormsign is on intercept course, your position, estimated contact twenty-five minutes.†
Book 1
- There was a pause, then: "Contact in twenty-six minutes minus.†
Book 1
- They'll continue working until the last minute.†
Book 1
- "Nine minutes," Kynes said.†
Book 1
- They still have a few minutes.†
Book 1
- The Duke slid into his seat, frowning, said: "We still have almost three minutes on the original contact estimate.†
Book 1
- The clock there had not been properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M. The disturbance was loud and incoherent.†
Book 1
- "Let us discuss something else for a minute, then," she said.†
Book 1
- We knew to the minute when you'd be coming out of it.†
Book 1
- About ten minutes.†
Book 1
- Kynes took a deep breath, said: "This door should hold for at least twenty minutes against all but a lasgun."†
Book 2
- In a few minutes they stood on the floor of the fissure holding the pack between them.†
Book 2
- Whenever I light its candle it'll give us about thirty minutes.†
Book 2
- Thirty minutes?†
Book 2 *
- In a minute I'll get up and tell him what I think of him, Kynes thought.†
Book 2
- And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action—the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand—moved a gigantic lever across the known universe.†
Book 2
- A bell began a slow tolling somewhere in the keep—twenty-minute warning for the arena gathering.†
Book 2
- For a long minute, the Baron stared at him, then: "Say what you must say.†
Book 3
- The thing was only minutes away now, filling the morning with the friction-hissing of its passage.†
Book 3
- It took a long minute and the full effort of the training he had received from his mother for Paul to recapture a feeling of calm.†
Book 3
- In the few minutes I ….†
Book 3
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.