Minute

Meaning
A period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour.
Pronunciation
UK ˈmɪnɪt
US ˈmɪnɪt
Example Sentences
- Keep your eyes peeled because I promise you another vehicle will be along any minute now that blows these cars out of the water.
- The most yoghurt eaten in one minute is 1.685 kilograms (3.71 lbs) and was achieved by [Andre] [Ortolf] (Germany) in Augsburg, Germany, on 25 March 2017.
- On average, a severe thunderstorm can produce approximately 6,000 lightning strikes every minute.
- An international football game is 90 minutes long and those 90 minutes are distributed in two 45 minute halves.
- Every minute, over 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
- The longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds long.
- Every minute, there are 400 tweets going out that include a link to a YouTube video.
- Drizzle occurs when the humidity of fog attains 100% and the minute cloud droplets begin to coalesce into larger droplets.
- Approximately 350,000 Tweets are posted every minute.
- Every single minute, an average of 350,000 new tweets are posted on Twitter.
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