If you mean the time measurement, the first. If you mean extremely small, the second.
Some words that mean extremely small include: - Tiny - Miniature - Minute - Modest - Miniscule - Teeny - Teensy - Undersized - Little - Mini - Wee - Itty - Bitty - Puny - Petite
A very very small unit
In Latin, "minute" means small or tiny. In the 16th century, when a record was kept of official meetings, it was first written in shorthand, which was a very small or "minute" script. The text would later be transcribed into regular size. Thus the record was called the "minutes" of the meeting, originally pronounced "my-noots."
the small hour hand will be on the 7 and the small minute hand will be on the 1
Tiny, miniscule, minute, microscopic.
The homograph for "minute" is "minute." It can mean both a unit of time equal to sixty seconds and to describe something very small or insignificant.
minuto (60 in an hour) minucioso/a (very small)
In art and anywhere else, minute (pronounced mine-oot) means very small and huge means very large.
Minute as in a measure of time = Minuto Minute as in "very small" = Minúsculo (Miniscule)
Tiny, minute, ...
minute
miniscule(very small, miniature, minute, or diminutive)
1. "Minute" pronounced "minnit" is a noun which can mean a sixtieth of an hour, a sixtieth of a degree, or the record of a meeting. 2. "Minute" pronounced "mine yute" in an adjective meaning very small.
Since the word minute has two meanings, there are two possible interpretations of "minute work" which would be, either work that can be completed in a minute (60 seconds) or work that is being done on some very small (which is to say, minute) object - but the second interpretation is almost certainly the one that is meant.
In this context, the word "minute" means very small or insignificant.
If you mean the time measurement, the first. If you mean extremely small, the second.