Told ya it was dumb. So, for years I have pronounced it Minute (MY-NOOT) of angle as in: Adjective: Extremely small: "a minute fraction of an inch".

But I'm watching Outdoor Channel and they are saying Minute (MINIT) of angle as in: "time"...which makes no sense to me.

 

What is the proper term??

The second way. Like the unit of time. Dont know why

I believe it is minute as in time, in measurements of angle for longitude and latitude a minute can be broken down into 60 seconds same as time.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude if you go to the section noting and calculating it mentions this

Think of your latitude and longitude etc... They use minutes.... It is a measurement of an angle (as well as the more regular use as a measurement of time)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute

 

Guess the youngsters these days no longer do navigation by stars, sextants etc with all this new-fangled GPS thing :-)

 

TheWombat

Now THAT makes sense...THANKS!

I just say "MOA"

Degrees, minutes, seconds are units of static measurement for angles.

"Moment" should be used when describing perterbing forces on a moving body.

e.g.,

A 1 inch group at 100 yards represents 1-minute of angle precision.

A quality heavy-barrel rifle is capable of sub-moment of angle precision.

 

Or just say MOA. ;-)

Edited September 9, 201214 yr by TheDon