minute hand

1. 1.

   points to the minutes

   Synonymsbig hand

   Broaderhand

Questions about minute hand

What does minute hand mean?

minute hand means "points to the minutes".

What is another word for minute hand?

Close synonyms include big hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minute hand a common word?

minute hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.