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