Is a minute synonymous with a minuet in some other countries or something?

Question

don't know how many times today I've seen a question with minuet in it in place of minute, just wondering, seriously.

I KNOW what a friggin minuet is.

Answer 1

Careful, honey, don't get caught up in such "my-noot" distinctions....

Answer 2

1. A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. (Some rare minutes have 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second.)
The minute is not a SI unit, however it is accepted for use with SI units. The correct abbreviation for minute or minutes is "min".
In geometry, a minute is a unit of angle, 1/60th of a degree. It is then also known as a minute of angle or minute of arc, and can further be divided into 60 seconds of arc.
In astronomy, the minute is a unit of angle and time, 1/60th of an hour of right ascension. It is then known as the minute of right ascension, and can be further divided into 60 seconds of right ascension.
The symbol for a minute of time (or of right ascension) is min.
The symbol for a minute of arc is a prime (′). For example, fifteen minutes could be written 15′. However, more commonly an apostrophe, or single quote (U+0027), is used.
The Earth turns on its polar axis through fifteen minutes of arc in every minute of time. A minute of arc at the Earth's equator is approximately a nautical mile.
An hour likely contains 60 minutes due to influences from the Babylonians, who used a base-60 counting system.


2. A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted, under the influence of the Italian minuetto, from the French menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musical scores. The word refers probably to the short steps, pas menus, taken in the dance. At the period when it was most fashionable it was slow, ceremonious, and graceful.

Answer 3

noun

A very brief time: crack, flash, instant, moment, second1, trice, twinkle, twinkling, wink. Informal jiff, jiffy. Chiefly British tick. See big/small/amount, time.
minute2

adjective

Extremely small: diminutive, dwarf, Lilliputian, midget, miniature, minuscule, pygmy, tiny, wee. Informal peewee, pintsize, pintsized, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, weeny. See big/small/amount.
Characterized by attention to detail: blow-by-blow, circumstantial, detailed, full, particular, thorough. See specific/general.

Antonyms

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adj
Definition: exact, precise
Antonyms: cursory, imprecise, inexact, rough

adj

Definition: unimportant
Antonyms: consequential, considerable, important, significant, substantial, trivial

adj

Definition: very small
Antonyms: big, giant, gigantic, huge, large, mighty

Measures and Units

Home > Library > Science > Measures and Units minute
[Etymology: Lat: ‘small’] Symbol ′. Usually the first subdivisional unit of some more established unit, a term adopted in medieval times when the Babylonian sexagesimal scheme of division was common, hence rarely other than a sixtieth of the larger unit. Often represented by a single prime or hash mark, e.g. 3′ for 3 minutes of time, angle, etc.; its next layer of subdivision, being the second layer, is invariably into units called seconds, represented by double hash marks.

length 1/60 of 1 degree of a great circle of Earth, being 1 minute of longitude along the Equator and equivalent elsewhere, particularly meridionally, approximately 1.85 km or 1.11 mi (essentially the geographic mile and nautical mile). Also a minute of longitude along an identified parallel of latitude, which means a lesser and progressively declining length as latitude increases. Specific values include:longitude along Equator 1.854 93∼ km (1.152 60∼ mi)
latitude near Equator 1.842 52∼ km (1.144 89∼ mi)
latitude near Pole 1.861 15∼ km (1.156 46∼ mi)
The minute of latitude probably set the size of the early fathom, foot, etc.

time. Symbol min in the SI. Traditionally 1/60 of an hour, thereby 1/1440 of a day (a unit varying in size depending on qualifier) and sized by such fractioning. Since 1967, however, the minute of normal usage (derived from the mean solar day), routinely equalling 60 seconds, has been defined from the atomic second. (See leap second for exceptions to the number 60.)

plane angle (also arcmin, minute of arc) The first layer of fractioning the degree, the traditional measure of plane angle, by definition = 1°/60 = 0.016 667∼°, = π/(60 × 180) rad = 0.000 290 89∼ rad.

astronomy Note that minute for right ascension is the minute of the sidereal clock, while for declination and most other purposes it is the minute of plane angle; the two differ by a ratio of 1:15.

Answer 4

a minuet is the slow triple time of music

Answer 5

Honey, in any country a minute man is a bad thing. Regardless the language, a man without staying power is a loser from the word go.

Answer 6

well a 60 minuets make an our.....

Answer 7

Not in mine...