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A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. Bold text:This article is about the written record of a meeting. ... Measurement is the determination of the size or magnitude of something. ... This article is about the concept of time. ... This article is about angles in geometry. ...

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Time

The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. Some rare minutes have 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit, however it is accepted for use with SI units. Measurement is the determination of the size or magnitude of something. ... This article is about the concept of time. ... The hour (symbol: h) is a unit of time. ... This article is about the unit of time. ... A leap second is a one-second adjustment to civil time in order to keep it close to the mean solar time. ... Look up si, Si, SI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


The symbol for minute or minutes is min.


The fact that an hour contains 60 minutes is probably due to influences from the Babylonians, who used a base-60 or sexagesimal counting system. For other uses, see Babylon (disambiguation). ... This article is about different methods of expressing numbers with symbols. ...


Geometry

In geometry, the minute is a unit of angle, 1/60th of a degree. It is also known as a minute of angle or minute of arc and can further be divided into 60 seconds of arc. For other uses, see Geometry (disambiguation). ... This article is about angles in geometry. ... This article describes the unit of angle. ... A minute of arc, arcminute, or MOA is a unit of angular measurement, equal to one sixtieth (1/60) of one degree. ... A second of arc or arcsecond is a unit of angular measurement which comprises one-sixtieth of an arcminute, or 1/3600 of a degree of arc or 1/1296000 ≈ 7. ...


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. This article is not about the symbol for the set of prime numbers, â„™. The prime (′, Unicode U+2032, ′) is a symbol with many mathematical uses: A complement in set theory: A′ is the complement of the set A A point related to another (e. ...


Astronomy

In astronomy, the minute is a unit of angle, the minute of right ascension. It is equal to 1/60th of an hour of right ascension and can be further divided into 60 seconds of right ascension. For other uses, see Astronomy (disambiguation). ... Equatorial Coordinates Right ascension (abbrev. ...


The symbol for a minute of right ascension is min.


The Earth turns on its polar axis through fifteen minutes of arc in every minute of sidereal time. One minute of arc at the Earth's equator is approximately one nautical mile. This article is about Earth as a planet. ... A geographical pole is either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins. ... The axis of rotation of a rotating body is a line such that the distance between any point on the line and any point of the body remains constant under the rotation. ... Sidereal time is time measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the vernal equinox, which is very close to, but not identical with, the motion of stars. ... World map showing the equator in red In tourist areas, the equator is often marked on the sides of roads The equator marked as it crosses Ilhéu das Rolas, in São Tomé and Príncipe. ... A nautical mile or sea mile is a unit of length. ...


Origin

The first division was originally known as a "prime minute", from Latin "(pars) minuta prima", meaning "first minute (i.e. small) part (or division)" of the hour. Likewise, the second was known as a "second minute", meaning "the second small division" of the hour. This article is about the unit of time. ...

Look up minute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

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A tropical year is the length of time that the Sun, as viewed from the Earth, takes to return to the same position along the ecliptic (its path among the stars on the celestial sphere). ... For other uses, see Equinox (disambiguation). ... “Summer solstice” redirects here. ... This article is about days of the week. ... This article details various mathematical algorithms to calculate the day of the week for any particular date in the past or future. ... The days of the year are sometimes designated letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G in a cycle of 7 as an aid for finding the day of week of a given calendar date and in calculating Easter. ... The International Commission on Stratigraphy concerns itself with stratigraphy on a global scale. ... Diagram of geological time scale. ... Dating material drawn from the archaeological record can made by a direct study of a artifact or may be deduced by association with materials found in the context the item is drawn from or inferred by its point of discovery in the sequence relative to datable contexts. ... The precession of Earths axis of rotation with respect to inertial space is also called the precession of the equinoxes. ... Sidereal time is time measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the vernal equinox, which is very close to, but not identical with, the motion of stars. ... // Galactic time NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy alike our Milky Way Galactic time, not to confuse with siderial time, is the time that is described by our spin relative to the center of the galaxy. ... Look up fortnight in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The term jiffy (or jiffie) is used in different applications for various different short periods of time, usually 1/60 of a second. ... Lustrum was a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors of Rome in name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census, and which took place after a period of five years, so that the name came to denote a period... A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the lifetime of a person, or about 90 years. ... A shake is an informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds, or 10-8 seconds. ... A tide is an obsolete or archaic term for time, period or season, such as eventide, shrovetide, Eastertide, etc. ... For the novel by Michael Crichton, see Timeline (novel). ... A duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval. ... In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer systems notion of the passing of time. ... // Definition and history Psychologists have investigated mental chronometry for over 100 years. ... The time value of money is the premise that an investor prefers to receive a payment of a fixed amount of money today, rather than an equal amount in the future, all else being equal. ...

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