Minute vs. Mite — What's the Difference?

The minute is a unit of time usually equal to 1/60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds (there is a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system).

Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites are not a defined taxon, but the name is used for members of several groups in the subclass acari of the class Arachnida.

A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of an hour, or 60 seconds.

Any of numerous small or minute arachnids of the order Acarina, including species that damage crops or stored food and species that are parasitic on animals and often transmit disease.

A unit of angular measurement equal to one sixtieth of a degree, or 60 seconds. Also called arcminute, minute of arc.

A very small contribution or amount of money.

A measure of the distance one can cover in a minute

A widow's mite.

A short interval of time; moment.

A very small object, creature, or particle.

A specific point in time

A coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing.

A note or summary covering points to be remembered; a memorandum.

Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari).

Minutes An official record of the proceedings of a meeting.

A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.

To record in a memorandum or the minutes of a meeting.

A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

Exceptionally small; tiny.

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Not worthy of notice; insignificant

Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

Characterized by careful scrutiny and close examination

A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.

A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).

Eye dialect of might

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the dust mite, cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, three-toed spider mite, etc. See Acarina.

A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.

A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.

Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

A point in time; a moment.

A slight but appreciable addition;

A nautical or a geographic mile.

Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

An old coin, a half farthing.

(obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

A while or a long unspecified period of time

(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

Very small.

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m. or min.; as, 4 h. 30 m.

The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (´); as, 10° 20´).

A nautical or a geographic mile.

A coin; a half farthing.

A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.

A point of time; a moment.

The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate; to read the minutes of the last meeting.

A fixed part of a module. See Module.

Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.

Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable; as, minute details.

Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.

A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;

An indefinitely short time;

A particular point in time;

A unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree

A short note;

Distance measured by the time taken to cover it;

Infinitely or immeasurably small;

Immeasurably small

Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;