minute hand
noun
: the long hand that marks the minutes on the face of a watch or clock
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Available in four sizes ranging from 36 mm to 46 mm, the current, more modern Superocean retains many of those additions (the high-contrast minute scale, the square minute hand) but brings back the second hand. 
Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 July 2022 This vibrant detail emulates the team’s car for the season and appears on the chronograph second hand, the chronograph minute hand and the top right pusher. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 May 2022 Hands are treated with Super-LumiNova that glows blue on the hour and seconds hands, green on the minute hand and white to cyan on the seconds hand. Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2022 The clock’s minute hand ticked back and forth over the decades, following the development of even more destructive hydrogen bombs, cases of nuclear false alarms, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, perhaps the most dangerous standoff in history. Ramin Skibba, Wired, 19 Jan. 2022 The hour can be changed without affecting the movement of the minute hand, thanks to a device that moves it forward or backward in increments of one hour. Carol Besler, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021 The last time change was in 2018, when the minute hand crept 30 seconds toward midnight, resting just two minutes shy of the end of the world. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020 In fact, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world was arguably perched most precariously on the precipice of nuclear war, the infamous minute hand didn’t move a bit. Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020 Whether or not the clock's minute hand moves every year is decided by the organization's Science and Security Board alongside its Board of Sponsors — comprised of more than a dozen Nobel laureates, according to the organization. Audrey Mcnamara, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2020 See More
Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 July 2022 This vibrant detail emulates the team’s car for the season and appears on the chronograph second hand, the chronograph minute hand and the top right pusher. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 May 2022 Hands are treated with Super-LumiNova that glows blue on the hour and seconds hands, green on the minute hand and white to cyan on the seconds hand. Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2022 The clock’s minute hand ticked back and forth over the decades, following the development of even more destructive hydrogen bombs, cases of nuclear false alarms, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, perhaps the most dangerous standoff in history. Ramin Skibba, Wired, 19 Jan. 2022 The hour can be changed without affecting the movement of the minute hand, thanks to a device that moves it forward or backward in increments of one hour. Carol Besler, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021 The last time change was in 2018, when the minute hand crept 30 seconds toward midnight, resting just two minutes shy of the end of the world. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020 In fact, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world was arguably perched most precariously on the precipice of nuclear war, the infamous minute hand didn’t move a bit. Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020 Whether or not the clock's minute hand moves every year is decided by the organization's Science and Security Board alongside its Board of Sponsors — comprised of more than a dozen Nobel laureates, according to the organization. Audrey Mcnamara, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1720, in the meaning defined above