minute vs culmination

culmination vs minute

minute and culmination both are nouns.

minute is an adjective but culmination is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
minute	Yes	Yes	No	No
culmination	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, culmination is a hyponym of minute; that is, culmination is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than minute:

minute: a particular point in time
culmination: the decisive moment in a novel or play

Other hyponyms of minute include climax, eleventh hour, last minute, moment of truth, moment of truth, pinpoint, time, psychological moment.

minute (noun)	culmination (noun)
distance measured by the time taken to cover it	a concluding action
a short note	the decisive moment in a novel or play
a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree	(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour	a final climactic stage
an indefinitely short time
a particular point in time

minute (adjective)	culmination (adjective)
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
infinitely or immeasurably small

Difference between minute and culmination

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