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They would examine the capsule minutely and culture everything onto growth media.
Chpt 11 *

minutely = carefully
It occurred to Leavitt that this was exactly what they were looking at: a minute, complete planet, with its life forms intact.
Chpt 15 *

minute = small

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"Just a minute, son," Manchek said, raising his hand.†
Chpt 3
Manchek expected to be called back within a few minutes by Washington; he expected to receive many calls in the next few hours, and so remained at the phone.†
Chpt 5
Within ten minutes of Manchek's call, the following message clattered across the scrambled maximum-security cabler units of the nation: UNIT TOP SECRET CODE FOLLOWS AS CBW 9/9/234/435/6778/90 PULG COORDINATES DELTA 8997 MESSAGE FOLLOWS AS WILDFIRE ALERT HAS BEEN CALLED.†
Chpt 5
Five minutes later, there was a second cable which named the men on the Wildfire team: UNIT* TOP SECRET CODE FOLLOWS AS CBW 9/9/834/435/6778/900 MESSAGE FOLLOWS AS THE FOLLOWING MALE AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE BEING PLACED ON ZED KAPPA STATUS.†
Chpt 5
The paper described, but did not identify, a poison that would kill a person in less than a minute and was absorbed through the skin.†
Chpt 5
He thought for a minute about the other men on the team, and wondered at their reactions as they were called out of bed.†
Chpt 5
And Hall was not called until five minutes past seven.†
Chpt 5
Cutting both carotids and jugulars still allows ten to forty seconds before unconsciousness, and nearly a minute before death.†
Chpt 6
It was the job of the jet to shoot down the helicopter should the pilot suffer a last-minute loss of nerve and fail to go directly to Wildfire.†
Chpt 6
It was another fifteen minutes before they were able to locate the origin of the beeps to the north, on the outskirts of the town.†
Chpt 7
It was absolutely quiet for several minutes.†
Chpt 7
The plane flight had taken an hour and forty minutes, cruising in eerie, perfect silence at 1.8 times the speed of sound.†
Chpt 9
Stage IV: Maximal sterilization procedures: total immersion in four baths of biocaine, monochlorophin, xantholysin, and prophyne with intermediate thirty-minute UV and IR irradiation.†
Chpt 9
We will touch down in four minutes.†
Chpt 9
A few minutes later, the flaps went down, and he heard a whine as the airplane slowed.†
Chpt 9
After several minutes, Hall was ordered to lie on his stomach, and the process was repeated.†
Chpt 10
There is a three-minute delay between the time detonation locks in and the time the bomb goes off.†
Chpt 10
Should breakthrough of the organism occur, with contamination of all Level V, detonation will take place within three minutes unless you lock in your key, and call it off.†
Chpt 10
It lasted perhaps five minutes, and then he heard the buzzer and opened his eyes.†
Chpt 11
The computers were self-regulating, constructed to run check patterns through their circuits every twelve minutes; the computers shut down automatically if there was an abnormal reading.†
Chpt 11
REALTIME LOSS 12 MINUTES.†
Chpt 12
Hold this line open for a few minutes, fellows.†
Chpt 12
He knew that as many as two hundred people had been able to use the same computer at once; the principle was that computers operated very swiftly—in fractions of a second— while people operated slowly, in seconds or minutes.†
Chpt 14
One person using a computer was inefficient, because it took several minutes to punch in instructions, while the computer sat around idle, waiting.†
Chpt 14
So we can have complex diagnoses in a matter of minutes.†
Chpt 14
We should have hematocrit in two minutes.†
Chpt 14
It took several minutes before he could do it smoothly; it was difficult to coordinate, rather like trying to write while you watched in a mirror.†
Chpt 15
The five-power scan took twenty minutes.†
Chpt 15
The others followed within a minute.†
Chpt 16
A single rat with a massive dose lived nearly three minutes, but he also succumbed in the end.†
Chpt 16
I'm informing you now of an RTM crash forty-two minutes ago in Big Head, Utah.†
Chpt 19
"Sir," Colonel Burns said, "the Phantom drifted off its flight plan forty minutes out of San Francisco and passed through Area WF."†
Chpt 19
Twenty minutes before the crash.†
Chpt 19
The reality was cold enough: the Phantom had strayed into Area WF, going quite deep for a matter of six minutes before the pilot realized the error and pulled north again.†
Chpt 19
That signals the start of the three-minute interval.†
Chpt 20
Unless you lock in your key, the bomb will go off at the end of three minutes.†
Chpt 20
And this time, for ten minutes.†
Chpt 20
But it was ten minutes gone, disappeared, while he had dressed—an action that shouldn't have taken more than thirty seconds.†
Chpt 20
Ten minutes gone.†
Chpt 20
Ten minutes later, the horrified Captain Morris had connected Stone to Robertson, the head of the President's Science Advisory Committee, who was in Houston.†
Chpt 21
Stone spoke for several minutes with Robertson, who expressed initial surprise that, he hadn't heard from Wildfire earlier.†
Chpt 21
This was a delicate process, requiring many minutes of concentrated work.†
Chpt 22
Came back about twenty minutes later with the thing in the back of his Ford station wagon.†
Chpt 22
The brain receives the same amount of blood every minute, hour, day.†
Chpt 23
A single cell of the bacterium E. coli would, under ideal circumstances, divide every twenty minutes.†
Chpt 24 *
Stone and Leavitt puzzled over the problem for several minutes until they came to the Fourier electron-density scans.†
Chpt 25
END ITEM VERBATIM END PRINT END PROGRAM TERMINATE Hall remembered that Officer Willis had gone through Piedmont earlier in the evening—just a few minutes before the disease broke out.†
Chpt 25
He'll go any minute now.†
Chpt 26

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.

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