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Choose the word below the best substitute for the italicized word in the sentence""the mouse is a minute mammal""

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mi·nute1

/ˈminit/

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noun

noun: minute; plural noun: minutes; noun: arc minute; plural noun: arc minutes; noun: minute of arc; plural noun: minutes of arc

1.

a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour.

"he stood in the shower for twenty minutes"

the distance covered in sixty seconds by someone driving or walking.

"the hotel is situated just ten minutes from the center of the resort"

INFORMAL

a very short time.

"come and sit down for a minute"

Similar:

moment

short time

little while

second

bit

instant

sec

nanosecond

jiffy

jiff

tick

mo

two ticks

an instant or a point of time.

"she had been laughing one minute and crying the next"

Similar:

point in time

point

moment

instant

time

juncture

stage

INFORMAL•US

a period of time; a while.

"I hadn't been to Manhattan in a minute"

2.

a sixtieth of a degree of angular measurement (symbol: ʹ).

"Delta Lyrae is a double star with a separation of over 10 minutes of arc"