All 25 Uses of

minute
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude

He needed so much concentration to link scales, fit minute rubies into the eyes, laminate gills, and put on fins that there was not the smallest empty moment left for him to fill with his disillusionment of the war.
Chpt 10

minute = small

...but she would not allow herself to become upset by the confusion and went on perfecting the details so minutely that she came to be more than a specialist and was a virtuoso in the rites of death.
Chpt 14 *

minutely = carefully (with attention to detail)

As soon as they carried off Mauricio Babilonia with his shattered spinal column, Fernanda had worked out the most minute details of a plan destined to wipe out all traces of the burden.
Chpt 15 *

minute = small

"Oho," the officer said, turned on the lights, and ordered such a minute search that they did not miss the eighteen little gold fishes that had not been melted down and that were hidden behind the bottles Is their tin can.
Chpt 15

minute = detailed

She was so skillful and strict that when Aureliano Segundo instructed one of his carousing companions to pass himself off as the owner of the fortune, she got him all caught up in a minute interrogation sown with subtle traps.
Chpt 16

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

Jose Arcadio Buendia paid them and put his hand on the ice and held it there for several minutes as his heart filled with fear and jubilation at the contact with mystery.†
Chpt 1

Ten minutes later he returned with the notched spear that had belonged to his grandfather.†
Chpt 2

They did not sleep a minute, but the following day they felt so rested that they forgot about the bad night.†
Chpt 3

That morning she dressed the children in their best clothes, powdered their faces, and gave a spoonful of marrow syrup to each one so that they would all remain absolutely motionless during the nearly two minutes in front of Melquiades fantastic camera.†
Chpt 3

There were superior orders that prohibited visits to prisoners condemned to death, but the officer assumed the responsibility of letting her have a fifteen-minute stay.†
Chpt 7

Encased in black, invested with a rare solemnity, she stood during the three minutes of the interview.†
Chpt 9 *

He did not notice the minute, tearing destruction that time had wreaked on the house and that, after such a prolonged absence, would have looked like a disaster to any man who had kept his memories alive.†
Chpt 9

The only one who had not lost for a single minute the awareness that she was alive and rotting in her wormhole was the implacable and aging Amaranta.†
Chpt 11

That night the man boasted of his audacity and swaggered over his good luck on the Street of the Turks a few minutes before the kick of a horse crushed his chest and a crowd of outsiders saw him die in the middle of the street, drowned in his own bloody vomiting.†
Chpt 12

A few minutes later someone knocked at the door of the room where Aureliano Arcaya was shut up with a woman and shouted to him: "Hurry up, they're killing your brothers.†
Chpt 12

So he lay down in the hammock, removing the wax from his ears with a penknife, and in a few minutes he was asleep.†
Chpt 13

He went out into the courtyard at ten minutes after four, when he heard the distant brass instruments, the beating of the bass drum and the shouting of the children, and for the first time since his youth he knowingly fell into a trap of nostalgia and relived that prodigious afternoon Of the gypsies when his father took him to see ice.†
Chpt 13

Drawn by the public talk that Amaranta Buendia was receiving letters for the dead, Father Antonio Isabel arrived at five o'clock for the last rites and he had to wait for more than fifteen minutes for the recipient to come out of her bath.†
Chpt 14

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.†
Chpt 14

"Ladies and gentlemen," the captain said in a low voice that was slow and a little tired, "you have five minutes to withdraw."†
Chpt 15

They began to love each other at an altitude of fifteen hundred feet in the Sunday air of the moors, and they felt all the closer together as the beings on earth grew more and more minute.†
Chpt 19

She continued going to the room occasionally when she had something to do in that part of the house and she would stay there for a few minutes while her husband continued to scrutinize the sky.†
Chpt 19

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)
meaning too common or too 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.