minute

1. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.Examples: "give me a minute"; "Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!"Synonyms: instant, jiffy, mo, moment, sec, second, tic, bat of an eyeinformal

2. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.Examples: "Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting."; "The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda."in-plural

3. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.Examples: "[…]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion"obsolete

4. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.

5. (slang, US, Canada, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.Examples: "Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!"; "“Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?”"; "I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute."Synonyms: age, spell, aeon, age, ages, blue moon, coon's age, crow's ageCanadaUSdialectalslang