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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: points to the minutes [syn: minute hand, big hand]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1720 the long hand that marks the minutes on the face of a watch or clock

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Minute Min"ute, a. 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.