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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 dayplay

  Familiarity information: 60 MINUTES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


60 MINUTES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

60 minutes; hour; hr

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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