Difference between Minute and Hour

What is the difference between Minute and Hour?

Minute as a noun is a unit of time equal to sixty seconds and one-sixtieth of an hour. while Hour as a noun is a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

Minute

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A unit of time equal to sixty seconds and one-sixtieth of an hour. A short but unspecified time period. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. (in plural minutes) A (usually formal) written record of a meeting. A minute of use of a telephone or other network, especially a cell phone network.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Very small. very careful and exact, giving small details.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

Example sentence: For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Hour

Part of speech: abbreviation

Definition:

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.The time.

Example sentence: One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

We hope you now know whether to use Minute or Hour in your sentence.

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