Sixtieth+part+of+an+hour
11minute — In measures of time or circumference, a minute is the sixtieth part of an hour or degree …
12minute — Noun: A division of time; one sixtieth part of an hour. Verb: To make a note of something said or done. Hinshaw v State, 147 Ind 334, 377, 47 NE 157. See minutes …
13minute — minute1 /min it/, n., v., minuted, minuting, adj. n. 1. the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds. 2. an indefinitely short space of time: Wait a minute! 3. an exact point in time; instant; moment: Come here this minute! 4. minutes, the… …
14minute — minute1 [min′it] n. [OFr < ML minuta < L (pars) minuta (prima), (first) small (part), term used by Ptolemy for the sixtieth part of a unit in his system of fractions (of the circle, radius, day, later applied also to the hour): see MINUTE2] …
15minute — [14] Latin minūtus ‘small’ was a derivative of the verb minuere ‘lessen’ (source of English diminish), which itself was based on the element min ‘small’. In medieval Latin the term pars minuta prima ‘first small part’ was applied to a ‘sixtieth… …
16second — I. /ˈsɛkənd / (say sekuhnd) adjective 1. next after the first in order, place, time, rank, value, quality, etc.; (the ordinal of two). 2. alternate: every second Monday. 3. Music the lower of two parts for the same instrument or voice: second… …
17minute — I min•ute [[t]ˈmɪn ɪt[/t]] n. v. ut•ed, ut•ing, adj. 1) hor the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; 60 seconds 2) an indefinitely short space of time: Wait a minute![/ex] 3) an exact point in time; instant; moment: Come here this minute![/ex] 4)… …
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19tierce — (n.) old unit of measure equal to one third of a pipe (42 gallons), 1530s, from Anglo Fr. ters, O.Fr. tierce, from L. tertia, fem. of tertius a third, from root of tres three (see THREE (Cf. three)). Also used in Middle English for a third part… …
20Tierce — comes from the Latin word for third and can refer to: Tierce an old English unit of volume Tierce an organ stop, also known as a seventeenth Tierce (fencing) a fencing maneuvre Tierce (CMS) an open source content management system Tierce a… …
