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an abbreviation for minute or minimum
The recipe says to simmer the sauce for twenty min.
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Etymology
A modern abbreviation of minute or minimum, both ultimately from Latin minūtus 'small' / minimus 'least', from minuere 'to lessen', from Proto-Indo-European *mei- 'small'.
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