| |
| | MINUTE - LoveToKnow Article on MINUTE |
 | | More particularly, minute is used of the sixtieth part of any unit); in time, of an hour; and in astronomy, geometry, geography, andc., of a degree in the measurement of a circle. |
 | | To minute is to draw up such a summary or memorandum. |
 | | The sexagesimal system of division was originally used by the ancient Babylonian astronomers, was adopted by Ptolemy; and the sixtieth part of a degree, and its further subdivision into sixty parts, was called in Latin pars minutae primae, and pars minutae secundae respectively, hence the English minute and second. |
| www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MINUTE.htm (181 words) |
|