15 MINUTES

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 15 minutes mean? 

• 15 MINUTES (noun)
  The noun 15 MINUTES has 1 sense:

1. a quarter of an hour

  Familiarity information: 15 MINUTES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 15 MINUTES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quarter of an hour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

15 minutes; quarter-hour

Hypernyms ("15 minutes" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Holonyms ("15 minutes" is a part of...):

60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)

 Context examples 

Within 15 minutes, an infected tick can transmit the virus to a person or other mammal on which it is feeding.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

Pre-term infants are particularly prone to hiccups, as they spend an estimated 1% of their time hiccupping—roughly 15 minutes a day.

(Baby Hiccups Key to Brain Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The person should stay lying down for 10-15 minutes.

(Fainting, NIH)

EXAMPLE(S): Take a blood sample 15 minutes after administration of study drug or measure blood glucose 2 hours after each meal, the pauseQuantity would be 15 minutes and 2 hours respectively.

(Defined Composition Relationship Pause Quantity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The two 1kg autonomous vehicles hop around the rugged landscape of the asteroid, taking advantage of its minimal gravity by leaping distances of up to 50 feet (15 meters) – journeys which can take up to 15 minutes to complete given the asteroid’s low gravity.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Department of Population Health Sciences, says about 15 minutes daily in the "young" sun — between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. — but before your skin starts to get pink, is the best source of vitamin D.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)