All 21 Uses of

minute

in

Lord of the Flies

The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.
p. 153.8

minutely = slightly

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

I'll be out again in just a minute—" Ralph disentangled himself cautiously and stole away through the branches.†
p. 9.7

This amused both boys so much that Ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter.†
p. 17.1

Not for five minutes could they drag themselves away from this triumph.†
p. 28.5

The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces.†
p. 30.4 *

They waited for two minutes, then they fell in the sea; they went into the forest; they just scattered everywhere.†
p. 46.2

Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.†
p. 49.2

When the meeting was over they'd work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting.†
p. 51.3

Yet as the words became audible, the procession reached the steepest part of the mountain, and in a minute or two the chant had died away.†
p. 69.1

There was no sense of the passage of waves; only this minute-long fall and rise and fall.†
p. 105.8

Every minute the water breathed round the death rock and flowered into a field of whiteness.†
p. 187.1

Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded.†
p. 192.5

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
(2) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
(3) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting
(4) (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.