Synonyms of the word

minute

• n. A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
• n. (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
• n. (chiefly in the plural, minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
• n. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent…
• n. A point in time; a moment.
• n. A nautical or a geographic mile.
• n. An old coin, a half farthing.
• n. (obsolete) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
• n. (architecture) A fixed part of a module.
• n. (slang, US, dialectal) A while or a long unspecified period of time.
• v. (transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
• v. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
• adj. Very small.
• adj. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

arcminute

• n. A unit of angle; 1/60th of a degree.

atomic

• adj. (physics, chemistry) Of or relating to atoms.
• adj. Of or employing nuclear energy or processes.
• adj. Infinitesimally small.
• adj. Unable to be split or made any smaller.
• adj. (computing) Of an operation: guaranteed to complete either fully or not at all while waiting in a pause,…
• n. (computing) An atomic operation.

atomlike

• adj. Resembling an atom or some aspect of one.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

careful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
• adj. Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
• adj. Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

distance

• n. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)…
• n. Length or interval of time.
• n. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
• n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
• n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
• n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
• n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
• v. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

hour

• n. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
• n. A season, moment, time or stound.
• n. (poetic) The time.
• n. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
• n. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

infinitesimal

• adj. Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
• adj. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
• adj. (informal) Very small.
• n. (mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it…

instant

• n. A very short period of time; a moment.
• n. A single, usually precise, point in time.
• n. A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
• n. A day of the current month (abbreviated as: inst.).
• adj. (dated) Impending; imminent.
• adj. (dated) Urgent; pressing; acute.
• adj. Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
• adj. Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
• adj. Very quickly and easily prepared.
• adj. Of the current month (abbreviation inst.).
• adv. (poetic) At once; immediately.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

microscopic

• adj. Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal.
• adj. So small that it can only be seen using a microscope.
• adj. Very small; minute.
• adj. Carried out with great attention to detail.
• adj. Able to see extremely minute objects.

microscopical

• adj. microscopic (all senses).

min

• abbr. Alternative form of min..
• adj. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Less.
• n. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring to the mind of; remind.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remember.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention.
• n. minimum.

moment

• n. A brief, unspecified amount of time.
• n. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
• n. Weight or importance.
• n. (physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the…
• n. (historical) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth…
• n. (informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
• n. (colloquial) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
• n. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
• n. (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

narrow

• adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison…
• adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
• adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
• adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted.
• adj. Having a small margin or degree.
• adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened.
• adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
• adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
• adj. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate;…
• v. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
• v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait…

note

• n. (heading) A symbol or annotation.
• n. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.
• n. (music, heading) A sound.
• n. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
• n. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
• n. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
• n. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
• v. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
• v. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
• v. (transitive) To annotate.
• v. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
• v. (transitive) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of…
• n. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary;…
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period…

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

second

• adj. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding…
• adj. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
• adj. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
• adv. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.
• adv. After the first occurrence but before the third.
• n. One that is number two in a series.
• n. One that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
• n. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
• n. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
• n. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
• n. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this…
• n. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised…
• n. The second gear of an engine.
• n. (baseball) Second base.
• v. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.…
• v. To follow in the next place; to succeed.
• v. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
• n. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation…
• n. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
• n. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
• v. (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
• v. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two.…
• n. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
• n. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement…
• n. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

time

• n. (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past.
• n. A duration of time.
• n. An instant of time.
• n. (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
• n. (countable) Ratio of comparison.
• n. (grammar, dated) Tense.
• n. (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
• v. To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
• v. To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
• v. (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
• v. (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
• v. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
• v. To measure, as in music or harmony.
• interj. (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.