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Meanings of minute of arc in English

Russian
минута дуги
Portuguese
minuto de grau
Spanish
minuto arco
Catalan
minut

Angle unit.

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        Examples for "minute"
        Examples for "minute"
        1
        Collecting data every minute is certainly excessive; every 10 minutes should do.
        Essential snmp, 2nd edition
        2
        It had cost the State of Washington several million dollars a minute.
        The Fountains of Paradise
        3
        Teams get a penalty point per goal conceded past the 90-minute mark.
        The Guardian
        4
        But seriously, Miss Carver,' he added, 'forget the deal for a minute.
        The millionaire's rebellious mistress
        5
        That's one step out of a four minute 40 second free skate.
        Reuters
        1
        He found moa eggs, necklaces, a sperm whale tooth and human remains.
        Radio NZ
        2
        He said museum curators had also asked TradeMe to stop selling moa remains.
        Radio NZ
        3
        The authors applied this approach to each of the nine species of moa.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Large flightless ducks called moa-nalo were once the main herbivores on the islands.
        BBC
        5
        This means that the moa has not been extinct very long.
        Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
        1
        The minimum widths were about 1.1 arcmin in dark pigmented eyes and 1.6 arcmin in light pigmented eyes.
        Pubmed
        2
        The dwarf planet Pluto was a dim 14th-mag telescopic object when it crept only 3 arcmin S of Pi on 26 June.
        The Guardian
        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.
        Wired
        2
        The image is 5 arcminutes across.
        Reuters
        3
        Each degree can be broken into 60 arcminutes and each minute is 60 arcseconds.
        Wired
        Usage of minute of arc in English
        1
        The true meridian can thus be found within one minute of arc:
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
        2
        Helmholtz has defined the minimum angle measurable with the naked eye as being one minute of arc.
        History of Astronomy
        3
        The human eye can't resolve any object that subtends less than three minutes of arc.
        The Flying Saucers are Real
        4
        We've lost about two minutes of arc.
        The Skylark of Space
        5
        This has an aperture of five inches, a power of thirty diameters, and a field of view of seventy-eight minutes of arc.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
        6
        That is to say, reduced to modern terminology, he places the limit of the sun's apparent size between thirty-three minutes and twenty-seven minutes of arc.
        A History of Science — Volume 1