All 8 Uses

minute
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
(Edited)

Before going in we walked up the street, turned down an alley, and then, again turning, passed in the rear of the building--Dupin, meanwhile examining the whole neighborhood, as well as the house, with a minuteness of attention for which I could see no possible object.

minuteness = detail (including even small considerations)
Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board minutely at the second casement.
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minutely = carefully
It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.

minute = detailed

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

Being both, apparently, occupied with thought, neither of us had spoken a syllable for fifteen minutes at least.†
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The man who ran up against you as we entered the street—it may have been fifteen minutes ago.†
They lasted for several minutes—probably ten.†
Some made it as short as three minutes—some as long as five.†
The whole feat did not occupy a minute.†

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 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.