⏱️ Unit of time 📝 Meeting record 📐 Angle unit 🔬 Extremely small 🧐 Very careful ✍️ To record officially

to minute

7.5

To write the official record of a meeting

verb
/ˈmɪnɪt/

: levantar acta

He minuted every important detail of the meeting, ensuring nothing was overlooked.

Examples

During the conference, she carefully minuted the main points discussed by the speakers.
From Paris, Duranty minuted on 17 August that "it is inconceivable that a public trial of such men would be held unless the authorities had full proofs of their guilt."

Academic text (1991)
The secretary minuted the decisions made during the meeting for future reference.

Antonyms

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

Idioms

just a minute

198 1.0

Ask someone to wait for a very short time

at the last minute

101 2.5

Happening just before the last possible moment to act

in just a minute

54 1.7

After a very short time

this minute

Informal

52 1.1

At this very moment without delay

mile a minute

Informal

5 3.9

Very quickly, often when someone talks or acts

laugh a minute

Informal

1 4.9

A very funny person or event that makes you laugh a lot

a hot minute

Slang

8.7

A short time, often said jokingly to mean a long time

laughing a minute

Archaic

7.7

All the time feeling amused and making happy sounds

not a minute too soon

Informal

5.9

Happens just in time before it is too late

Compounds

last minute

240 1.9

The latest time before something must happen

last-minute

103 3.7

Happening just before a deadline or event

up-to-the-minute

10 4.4

The latest information available now

New York minute

Informal

5 7.2

A very short moment when something happens

beats per minute

Specialized

5 2.7

Number of times the heart beats in one minute to measure pulse

last-minute gift

3 2.3

A gift bought shortly before it is needed

words per minute

Specialized

3 2.5

The number of words read, spoken, or typed in one minute

last-minute decision

2 3.5

A choice someone makes very late, just before something happens

minute hand

1 1.6

A long hand on a clock or watch that shows the minutes

revolutions per minute

Specialized

1 3.5

The number of turns something makes in one minute

minute man

1 9.1

A person ready to act quickly in an emergency, often a colonial soldier in the American Revolution

four-minute warning

1 5.4

A short announcement people hear four minutes before an event ends to tell them to prepare

light minute

Specialized

1 8.1

The distance light travels in one minute in empty space

minute book

Formal

1 5.7

A book where an organisation keeps official written records of meetings

minute of arc

Specialized

1 7.9

A small unit for measuring angles equal to one sixtieth of a degree

minute steak

1 3.3

A thin piece of beef that cooks very quickly

beats per minute

Specialized

3.1

Number of beats in music in one minute that shows a song's speed

count per minute

3.0

Number of events that happen in one minute

ampere-minute

Specialized

7.1

Amount of electric charge that a current of one amp moves in one minute

four-minute man

8.9

A runner who has run a mile in less than four minutes

last-minute sitter

4.2

A person who is arranged to care for children shortly before the care is needed

Microsoft minute

Informal

9.4

A short expected wait that often takes much longer

minute gun

9.9

A gun fired once every minute to honor people at a funeral

Surface Forms

minute infinitive

minuted past

minuted past participle

minuting present participle

minutes third person singular

Etymology

Minute (verb) to write meeting notes comes from the noun minute or Latin minuta 'small note', so to minute a meeting is to write its short, official notes.