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Examples of minute hand in a Sentence
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Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Manual-Winding 39 mm Long a staple of the Vacheron Constantin catalog, the Patrimony time-only manually-winding dress watch strips it down to just an hour and minute hand.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
There are the time-only models with simple hour and minute hands that are pure class.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
But the motor that drives the hour and minute hands of the watch hasn’t really changed since then.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
The index plots and hour/minute hands glow with matching blue Super-LumiNova.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2023
Chronograph seconds and minute hands are curved slightly downward for more accurate readings of the indexes.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
The indices and hour and minute hands are treated with Super-Luminova.
—Nancy Olson, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
The dial is classically minimalist, with needle-thin central hour and minute hands and eccentric details like long pointed hash marks at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock, pearled 18k white gold minute markers and an 18k gold Maltese cross, the brand’s logo, at 12 o’clock.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
Socolow is right that anti-scientific impulses in the United States and elsewhere are an alarming feature of today's world and perhaps indeed good reason to move the doomsday minute hand closer to midnight.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1720, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near minute hand
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“Minute hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minute%20hand. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
minute hand
noun
: the long hand that marks the minutes on the face of a watch or clock
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