Minute vs. Mite

Minutenoun

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

‘You have twenty minutes to complete the test.’;

Mitenoun

A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species.

Minutenoun

(informal) A short but unspecified time period.

‘Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!’;

Mitenoun

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

Minutenoun

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

‘We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.’;

Mitenoun

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

Minutenoun

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

‘Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.’;

Mitenoun

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Minutenoun

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

‘If you buy this phone, you’ll get 100 free minutes.’;

Mitenoun

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

Minutenoun

A point in time; a moment.

Mitenoun

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

Minutenoun

A nautical or a geographic mile.

Mitenoun

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.

Minutenoun

An old coin, a half farthing.

Mitenoun

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.

‘Two mites, which make a farthing.’;

Minutenoun

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

Mitenoun

A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Minutenoun

(architecture) A fixed part of a module.

Mitenoun

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

‘For in effect they be not worth a myte.’;

Minutenoun

A while or a long unspecified period of time

‘Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!’;

Mitenoun

a slight but appreciable addition;

‘this dish could use a touch of garlic’;

Minuteverb

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

‘I’ll minute this evening’s meeting.’;

Mitenoun

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

Minuteverb

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

Mite

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.

Minuteadjective

Very small.

‘They found only minute quantities of chemical residue on his clothing.’;

Minuteadjective

Very careful and exact, giving small details.

‘The lawyer gave the witness a minute examination.’;

Minutenoun

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

‘Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour.’;

Minutenoun

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

Minutenoun

A nautical or a geographic mile.

Minutenoun

A coin; a half farthing.

Minutenoun

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

‘Minutes and circumstances of his passion.’;

Minutenoun

A point of time; a moment.

‘I go this minute to attend the king.’;

Minutenoun

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.

Minutenoun

A fixed part of a module. See Module.

Minuteadjective

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

Minuteadjective

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

Minuteadjective

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

Minuteverb

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

‘The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.’;

Minutenoun

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

‘he ran a 4 minute mile’;

Minutenoun

an indefinitely short time;

‘wait just a moment’; ‘it only takes a minute’; ‘in just a bit’;

Minutenoun

a particular point in time;

‘the moment he arrived the party began’;

Minutenoun

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

Minutenoun

a short note;

‘the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting’;

Minutenoun

distance measured by the time taken to cover it;

‘we live an hour from the airport’; ‘its just 10 minutes away’;

Minuteadjective

infinitely or immeasurably small;

‘two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm’; ‘reduced to a microscopic scale’;

Minuteadjective

immeasurably small

Minuteadjective

characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;

‘a minute inspection of the grounds’; ‘a narrow scrutiny’; ‘an exact and minute report’;

Minute

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).