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

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 565 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less) , an adjective meaning of very small size,
petty
  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
  of a public or other
body
 , or to a memorandum of instructions, &c. A Treasury minute in the United Kingdom is an official memorandum authorizing certain
procedure
 . " To minute " is to draw up such a summary or memorandum. More particularly, " minute " is used of the sixtieth
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
  of division was originally used by the ancient Babylonian astronomers, was adopted by
Ptolemy
 ; and the sixtieth
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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