minute mark

/ (ˈmɪnɪt) /

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noun

the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet

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Words nearby minute mark

minute, minute gun, minute hand, minutely, Minuteman, minute mark, Minutemen, minutes, minute steak, minute volume, minutiae

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How to use minute mark in a sentence

Toomey lives here with her husband, Mark, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and their two daughters.
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Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.
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“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
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I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
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By the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.
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The remaining one struggled for another half-minute, and flared up in one last, desperate effort.
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Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.
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