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They work quickly; for a minute is the usual time they remain in the water, though some can stand it twenty seconds longer One would suppose that the sharks, which abound in these waters, would make it dangerous business; but very few accidents occur, for the commotion about the boats seems to scare them away.

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  1. noun A unit of time equal to one sixtieth of an hour, or 60 seconds.
  2. noun A unit of angular measurement equal to one sixtieth of a degree, or 60 seconds. Also called minute of arc.
  3. noun A measure of the distance one can cover in a minute: lives ten minutes from school.
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  • More important right this minute was the fact that the little one wasn't wringing his hands together any longer. —  Garwood, Julie - Prince Charming
  • "Of all the Half a minute should be a decent enough time for a newly betrothed pair, I believe," he said. —  Mary Balogh - Counterfeit Bethrotal
  • "The run at the minute is absolutely killing us," he said.
  • I want to garner as large an audience as possible for my students work and I think a minute might be the upper limit of time that most folks would be willing to invest in watching a video about calculus.
  • Number 37 at the minute is an impressive climb, let's hope it keeps going up and he does actually get a top 40 single.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin (pars) minūta (prīma), (first) minute (part), from Latin minūta, feminine of minūtus, small; see minute2.
  2. Middle English, from Latin minūtus, past participle of minuere, to lessen; see mei-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French menu = Provencal menut = Spanish menudo = Portuguese miudo = Italian minuto, from Latin minutus, little, small, minute, past participle of minuere, make smaller, lessen, diminish, from minu-, stem of minor, smaller, less, minimus, smallest, least: see minor and min.
  2. from Middle English minute, mynute, mynet (in comp. also mynt-), a minute (of time), a moment (also a small piece of money), = Middle Dutch minute, Dutch minuut = German minute = Swedish Danish minut, from Old French minute, French minute, feminine, = Spanish Portuguese Italian minuto, from Late Latin minutum, a small portion or piece, Middle Latin, a small part (of time), a minute, neuter of minutus, small: see minute.
 

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