MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

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MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less) , an adjective meaning of very small size,

petty

PETTY, SIR WILLIAM (1623-1687)

or trifling; also extremely precise. In this sense the word is pronounced mi-mite. As a substantive and pronounced minnit the word (usually in the plural) is applied to a written summary of the transactions of a

meeting

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

of a public or other

body

BODY

, or to a memorandum of instructions, &c. A Treasury minute in the United Kingdom is an official memorandum authorizing certain

procedure

PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

. " To minute " is to draw up such a summary or memorandum. More particularly, " minute " is used of the sixtieth

part

PART

of any unit); in time, of an hour; and in astronomy, geometry, geography, &c., of a degree in the measurement of a circle. The sexagesimal

system

SYSTEM

of division was originally used by the ancient Babylonian astronomers, was adopted by

Ptolemy

PTOLEMY (
CLAUDIUS
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- CLAUDIUS [TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DRUSUS NERO GERMANICUS]
- CLAUDIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
- MATTHIAS
  - MATTHIAS
  - MATTHIAS (1557-1619)
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  MATTHIAS
  - MATTHIAS
  - MATTHIAS (1557-1619)
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PTOLEMAEUS)

; and the sixtieth

part

PART

of a degree, and its further subdivision into sixty parts, was called in Latin pars minutae primae, and pars minutae secundae respectively, hence the English " minute " and " second."

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