every hour (minute)

  • 11Minute gun — Minute Min ute, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes. [1913 Webster] {Minute bell}, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. {Minute book}, a book in… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 12Minute hand — Minute Min ute, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes. [1913 Webster] {Minute bell}, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. {Minute book}, a book in… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13Minute — This article is about the unit of time, angle and right ascension. For other uses of the word, see Minute (disambiguation). See also: Minute of arc A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to… …

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  • 14minute — min|ute1 W1S1 [ˈmınıt] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(time)¦ 2 the last minute 3 by the minute 4 love/enjoy/hate etc every minute (of something) 5 within minutes 6 a minute 7 in a minute 8 wait a minute/just a minute/hold on a minute/hang on a minute …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 15minute — 1 / mInit/ noun (C) 1 TIME one of the 60 parts into which an hour is divided: It takes me ten minutes to walk to work. | The train arrived at four minutes past eight. 2 at the last minute at the last possible time, just before it is too late:… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16Hour — The hour (symbol: h) is a unit of time. It is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with the SI.DefinitionIn modern usage, an hour is a unit of time 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds in length. It is approximately 1/24 of a median Earth… …

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  • 17Minute of arc — This article is about geometry. For firearms terminology, see Minute of Angle. A minute of arc, arcminute, or minute of angle (MOA), is a unit of angular measurement equal to one sixtieth (1⁄60) of one degree. In turn, a second of arc or… …

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  • 1812-hour clock — AM/PM redirects here. For the convenience store chain, see ampm. Clock system 12 hour 24 hour midnight (start of day) 12:00* 00:00 12:59 a.m. 00:59   1:00 a.m. 01:00   2:00 a.m. 02:00 … …

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  • 19Four-minute warning — For the song by Mark Owen, see Four Minute Warning (song). The four minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992 when the system was dismantled after the cold… …

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  • 20on the hour — {adv. phr.} Each time the hour has zero minutes and zero seconds. * /The uptown bus goes past the school on the hour./ * /The woman must take her pill on the hour./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms