All 8 Uses of
minute
in
Holes
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Because of the scarcity of water, each camper was only allowed a four-minute shower.†
p. 21..3
- It was four minutes of heaven.†
p. 43..1 *
- Less than thirty minutes after Magnet returned to camp, Stanley spat into his hole.†
p. 81..1
- He claimed he could break into a car, disconnect the alarm, and hot-wire the engine, all in less than a minute.†
p. 145..4
- He'd make a mental snapshot of how it looked, then wait maybe ten minutes before looking at it again, to see if it seemed closer.†
p. 161..5
- But about ten or fifteen minutes later, Zero said, "Lunch."†
p. 169..1
- If he had, he thought it must have just been for the last five minutes.†
p. 198..7
- He returned a few minutes later and announced the file was apparently misplaced.†
p. 220..1
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.