Minute

A minute was a small increment of time that made up portion of an hour. On Earth a minute was 1/60 of an hour, and was divided up into 60 seconds.
In colloquial speech, a minute could mean an undefined short amount of time, as in "I'll be just a minute". () A common Earth slang was the question, "Do you have a minute?" ()
== Comparative duration ==
* The crew of would be dead within 3 minutes when exposed to the radiolytic isotopes of a neutronic storm. ()
* In June 2151, during a discussion in the situation room on the bridge of , Hoshi Sato told Malcolm Reed that he cannot expect a landing party report to the bridge every 10 minutes. Reed suggested that this should be standard procedure. ()
* Balok of the First Federation granted the crew of the "10 Earth time periods known as minutes to make preparations" for their destruction. ()
* When Bractor allowed Captain Jean-Luc Picard time to decide the fate of the and her crew, he gave the Captain "10 of your minutes" to comply. ()
* When Travis Mayweather reviewed about the Terra Nova Expedition, Enterprise was still three hours and 17 minutes away from the colony. ()
* Commander needed 40 minutes to synthesize new valve seals. ()
== Non-comparative references ==
* Doctor Phlox needed a few minutes to synthesize cytolytic injections. ()
* Captain Jonathan Archer needed a few minutes to join the Novans Nadet and Jamin in the launch bay when Phlox reported to him. ()
== Solar minute ==
A solar minute was a unit of time.
During the deposition for Montgomery Scott's trial for the murder of , after the realization that an unknown entity named Redjac may be involved, Spock had the computer "digest log recordings for past five solar minutes" in order to correlate the hypotheses with lifeforms known to exist in the galaxy. ()
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Category:Time measurements