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Minute hand   /mˈɪnət hænd/   Listen
adjective
Minute  adj.  Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
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 which written minutes are entered.
Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand.
Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning.
Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.






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"Minute hand" Quotes from Famous Books



... clock we do not readily see that even the minute hand is moving, and if the clock struck only once in a hundred years we can conceive of people arguing whether the hands did really move at all. So it often is with the changes that go on from generation to generation in living creatures. The flux is so slow, like the flowing of a glacier, ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson



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