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30 MINUTES
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A half of an hour
Synonyms:
30 minutes; half-hour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("30 minutes" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Holonyms ("30 minutes" is a part of...):
60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)
Context examples:
Taking 7,000 steps a day, every day of the week is considered equivalent to 30 minutes a day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at least 5 days a week.
(Another Reason to Exercise: Protecting Your Sight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mice and rats injected with lactoferrin 30 minutes after hemorrhages recovered faster and had reduced brain damage.
(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)
The strip, designed for early diagnosis of infection caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasites responsible for the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease, gives a result within 30 minutes of being immersed in a solution with samples of blood, serum or saliva of an infected person.
(Biosensor promises early malaria diagnosis, SciDev.Net)
A classification of myocardial infarction characterized by cardiogenic shock; an event with systolic BP less than 90 mmHg for greater than 30 minutes, not responsive to fluid resuscitation alone, and felt to be secondary to cardiac dysfunction.
(Killip Class IV, NCI Thesaurus)
