minute
extremely small or detailed
Root
- min / mini: small, less, least, or made smaller
Other words with the min / mini root
- diminish: to make or become smaller
- diminutive: very small; a smaller form
- mini: very small
- minimum: the smallest allowed or possible amount
Minute means tiny when the stress moves to the second syllable: small enough to need close attention.
The footnote recorded a minute difference between the two samples.
This is not the time word in this use. Minute here is smallness under a lens: a minute detail, a minute amount, a minute crack.