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60 MINUTES
Dictionary entry overview: What does 60 minutes mean?
• 60 MINUTES (noun)
The noun 60 MINUTES has 1 sense:
1. a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
Familiarity information: 60 MINUTES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
the job will take more than an hour
Hypernyms ("60 minutes" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Meronyms (parts of "60 minutes"):
30 minutes; half-hour (a half of an hour)
15 minutes; quarter-hour (a quarter of an hour)
min; minute (a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour)
quarter (a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "60 minutes"):
sidereal hour (1/24 of a sidereal day)
man hour; person hour (a time unit used in industry for measuring work)
Holonyms ("60 minutes" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Context examples
20-60 minutes of exercise which elevates your heart rate to 60-80% of your maximum heart rate performed at least 3-4 times per week.
(Moderate Exercise, NCI Thesaurus)
Kids need about 60 minutes each day.
(Obesity in Children, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
20-60 minutes of exercise which elevates your heart rate to 35-60% of your maximum heart rate performed at least 3-4 times per week.
(Light Exercise, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit measure of time equal to 3,600 seconds or 60 minutes.
(Hour, NCI Thesaurus)
Participants ate the same breakfast and did the same exercise — 60 minutes of cycling.
(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Clinical signs may be seen 30-60 minutes after eating (early dumping): cramping, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea or they may be seen 1-3 hours later as a result of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (late dumping): sweating, dizziness, confusion and heart palpitations.
(Dumping syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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