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minute hand

[ min-it ]

noun

  1. the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.


minute hand

/ ˈmɪnɪt /

noun

  1. the pointer on a timepiece that indicates minutes, typically the longer hand of two Compare hour hand second hand
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of minute hand1

First recorded in 1720–30
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Example Sentences

Transparent hour and minute hands allow the sun’s rays to reach an embedded solar panel that keeps the quartz movement ticking inside its injection-molded case.

At the center of “Baltimore Self Portrait,” Ruth Lozner’s assemblage of junk and memories, is a vintage clock that lacks hour and minute hands but whose second hand circles resolutely.

The minute-hand of the clock was already climbing upward towards eleven.

Apparently he found that the clock was too fast, for he walked over to it and turned the minute-hand back.

The minute-hand drags on as though it were weary with the day's work.

At fifteen minutes before twelve we stood noting the minute-hand of the watch, hoping a few minutes of prolonged life.

The movement of the minute-hand on the clock-face became uncanny and merciless to her eye in its deliberate regularity.

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