A unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree.
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Examples for "minute"
Examples for "minute"
1Collecting data every minute is certainly excessive; every 10 minutes should do.
2It had cost the State of Washington several million dollars a minute.
3Teams get a penalty point per goal conceded past the 90-minute mark.
4But seriously, Miss Carver,' he added, 'forget the deal for a minute.
5That's one step out of a four minute 40 second free skate.
1The true meridian can thus be found within one minute of arc:
2Helmholtz has defined the minimum angle measurable with the naked eye as being one minute of arc.
3The human eye can't resolve any object that subtends less than three minutes of arc.
4We've lost about two minutes of arc.
5This has an aperture of five inches, a power of thirty diameters, and a field of view of seventy-eight minutes of arc.
1In the case of the eye (with visible) light, this means that humans can resolve objects with an angular size of about 1 arcminute.
2The image is 5 arcminutes across.
3Each degree can be broken into 60 arcminutes and each minute is 60 arcseconds.
Translations for arcminute