All 4 Uses

minute
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The Black Cat
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At one period I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire.
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minute = small
The rubbish on the floor was picked up with the minutest care.
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minutest = most careful

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

About this wall a dense crowd were collected, and many persons seemed to be examining a particular portion of it with very minute and eager attention.†
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I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.†

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.