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60 minutes

noun

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

- the job will take more than an hour

• Syn: ↑hour, ↑hr

• Derivationally related forms: ↑hourly (for: ↑hour), ↑horary (for: ↑hour)

• Hypernyms: ↑time unit, ↑unit of time

• Hyponyms: ↑sidereal hour, ↑man hour, ↑person hour

• Part Holonyms: ↑day, ↑twenty-four hours, ↑twenty-four hour period, ↑24-hour interval, ↑solar day, ↑mean solar day

• Part Meronyms:

↑half-hour, ↑30 minutes, ↑quarter-hour, ↑15 minutes, ↑minute, ↑min, ↑quarter

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60 Minutes [60 Minutes]

a US television news programme which has been broadcast each week since 1968 on ↑CBS. By 2003, it had won 73 ↑Emmy awards, more than any other news programme, and had been voted one of the ten most popular programmes on US television every year for 22 years.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.