Minute (min)
The minute is a unit of time, used for scheduling, cooking timers, exercise intervals, and meeting durations. Its symbol is min.
min
h
1 minute equals
| Hours | 0.0166667 h |
| Seconds | 60 s |
| Days | 0.000694444 d |
About the minute
The minute comes from Latin "pars minuta prima" (first small part), referring to the first division of the hour into 60 parts, a system inherited from Babylonian base-60 mathematics.
In everyday use the minute appears in scheduling, cooking timers, exercise intervals, and meeting durations. As a point of reference: the average pop song is about 3 to 4 minutes long.