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 day

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• 60 MINUTES (noun)

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)