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Definition of Minute hand
1. Noun. Points to the minutes.
Definition of Minute hand
1. Noun. The hand of a clock or watch face that revolves once each hour and indicates the minutes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minute Hand
Literary usage of Minute hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The minute hand is lit up by 16 and the hour hand by 10 incandescent lamps. ...
The minute hand is 20 feet long and the mechanism is run by a 2000-pound ..."
2. University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and General Rules by Charles Davies (1876)
"Since the minute-hand passes over 60 minute spaces while the hour-hand passes
over 5, the minute-hand passes over 12 minute spaces while the hour-hand ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"His path and the earth's path round the sun may be compared to the track followed
by the extremities of the minute hand and hour hand of an ordinary clock, ..."
4. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1863)
"Tbe minute hand moves over these 12 equal parts in 1 hour, while the hour ...
Hence the minute hand gains on the hour hand in 1 hour of time 11 of those 12 ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"The general scheme is this: We are going to have an hour-hand and a minute-hand
geared together so that the minute-hand will move just twelve times as fast ..."
6. University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and General Rules by Charles Davies (1870)
"Since the minute-hand passes over 60 minute spaces while the hour-hand passes
over 5, the minute-hand passes over 12 minute spaces while the hour-hand ..."
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