minuteful meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

minuteful

noun

Etymology From minute + -ful.

Enough to last a minute.

...and he has fought through each minute and its minuteful of pain (happily no minute can contain two minutefuls) during the seven months that have elapsed since we parted from him.1890, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 90:
I scarcely slept a minuteful.1939, The Eagle's Quest: A Prince's Flight for Freedom, page 225:

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And you, imagining them weightless and adept, overcame their lonely gravity and gave them sixty minutesful of grace.2000, Sue Nevill, All You Expect of the Road, page 70:
These things move slowly on paper, but the greeting was to me painfully short, there being of it not more than a minuteful, I should say.2008, Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I, page 266:

adj

Etymology From minute + -ful.

Having extensive minutes.

The UNDP and the government of the Republic of Honduras did systematic investigation works for ore deposits, for five years from 1969 to 1974, in total area of 10,800 km² in the northwestern part of the country, employing the methods of regional geological survey, geochemical exploration, local detailed geological survey, detailed geochemical exploration, geophysical exploration, pitting, trenching and diamond drilling, and selecting high potential areas for mineralization, recommended further detailed exploration in several areas as Chamelecon and Petoa, leaving the minuteful reports of geology and mineral deposits and the geological map of 1 to 50,000.The UNDP and the government of the Republic of Honduras did systematic investigation works for ore deposits, for five years from 1969 to 1974, in total area of 10,800 km² in the northwestern part of the country, employing the methods of regional geological survey, geochemical exploration, local detailed geological survey, detailed geochemical exploration, geophysical exploration, pitting, trenching and diamond drilling, and selecting high potential areas for mineralization, recommended further detailed exploration in several areas as Chamelecon and Petoa, leaving the minuteful reports of geology and mineral deposits and the geological map of 1 to 50,000.1900, Report on Geological Survey of the Western Area, Republic of Honduras: