MIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Min mean? 

• MIN (noun)
  The noun MIN has 3 senses:

1. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

2. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

3. an Egyptian god of procreation

  Familiarity information: MIN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

min; minute

Context example:

he ran a 4 minute mile

Hypernyms ("min" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "min"):

s; sec; second (1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)

Holonyms ("min" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese

Hypernyms ("Min" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An Egyptian god of procreation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Egyptian deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians)

 Context examples 

Actual results are reported when the estimated glomerular filtration rate is less than 60 ml/min.

(Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

Associated signs of peripheral hypoperfusion (e.g. cool extremities, oliguria, altered sensorium) or a cardiac index of less than 2.2L/min/m^(2) are present.

(History of Cardiogenic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-standing and persistent renal disease with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) less than 15 ml/min.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage 5, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-standing and persistent renal disease with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) between 15-29 ml/min.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage 4, NCI Thesaurus)

A research team led by Dr. Min Guo of the Scripps Research Institute investigated how borrelidin interferes with threonyl-tRNA synthetase.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

Long-standing and persistent renal disease with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) greater than 90 ml/min.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Because the half-time of monoglucose in the nascent glycoproteins is about 2 min, the protein should be repeatedly reglycosylated by UDP-glucose: glycoprotein glucosyltransferase (UGGT) resulting in association with CNX.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Chronic kidney disease is defined as either kidney damage or GFR less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 for greater than or equal to 3 months.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Long-standing and persistent renal disease with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) between 30-59 ml/min.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage 3, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-standing and persistent renal disease with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) between 60-89 ml/min.

(Chronic Kidney Disease, Stage 2, NCI Thesaurus)