A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle The minute is a Unit of measurement of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 second . In the Coordinated Universal Time time scale a minute occasionally has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units.http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter4/table6.html The symbol for minuteor minutesis min . The fact that an hour contains 60 minutes is probably due to influences from the [[Babylon]]ians, who used a [[base-60]] or sexagesimal counting system. Colloquially, a minute may also refer to an indefinite amount of time substantially longer than the standardized length.http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=minute ==Astronomy== In [[astronomy]], the minute is a unit of angle, the minute of [[right ascension]] . It is equal to 1/60th of an hour of right ascension and can be further divided into 60 seconds of right ascension. The Earth turns on its Geographical pole Axis of rotation through fifteen minutes of arc in every minute of sidereal time One minute of arc at the Earths equator is approximately one nautical mile In old astronomical texts minutecan also mean a unit of time equal to 1/60th of a day (24 usual minutes). These minutes correspond to the Latin diei scrupulis and used to express periods of planetary motions. For example, Kepler in Harmonices Mundi gives Saturn year as 10759D12, that is 10759 (Earth) days, 4 hours, and 48 (usual) minutes (roughly 29.5 years),

See also

* International System of Units * Latitude and longitude

References

* Henry Campbell Black, Black's Law Dictionary 6th Edition, entry on Minute. West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1991. * Eric W. Weisstein. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArcMinute.html "Arc Minute."] From MathWorld -- A Wolfram Category:Orders of magnitude (time) Category:Units of time als:Minute ar:دقيقة arc:ܩܛܝܢܬܐ ast:Minutu ay:T'ijuqa bn:মিনিট be:Хвіліна be-x-old:Хвіліна bs:Minuta bg:Минута ca:Minut cs:Minuta cy:Munud da:Minut de:Minute et:Minut el:Λεπτό es:Minuto eo:Minuto eu:Minutu fa:دقیقه hif:Minit fr:Minute (temps) fy:Minút hak:Fûn ko:분 (시간) hi:मिनट hr:Minuta id:Menit is:Mínúta it:Minuto he:דקה jv:Menit ka:წუთი sw:Dakika ht:Minit la:Minutum lv:Minūte lb:Minutt lt:Minutė ln:Monúti hu:Perc arz:دقيقه ms:Minit mn:Минут nah:Minuto nl:Minuut (tijd) ja:分 no:Minutt nn:Minutt pa:ਮਿੰਟ pnb:منٹ nds:Minuut pl:Minuta pt:Minuto ksh:Menutt (Zigk) ro:Minut qu:Minutu ru:Минута sah:Мүнүүтэ sco:Meenit sq:Minuta scn:Minutu simple:Minute sk:Minúta sl:Minuta szl:Minuta sr:Минут sh:Minut su:Menit fi:Minuutti sv:Minut ta:மணித்துளி th:นาที tg:Дақиқа tr:Dakika uk:Хвилина ur:دقیقہ (وقت) vi:Phút wo:Simili yi:מינוט zh-yue:分 zh:分鐘