Minuit

Minuit is French for midnight. It may also refer to:

Peter Minuit, the Dutch settler well known for purchasing the island of Manhattan from local Native American groups in 1626
Les Éditions de Minuit, a French publishing house
Minuit, a band from New Zealand
Minuit, a polka by Émile Waldteufel
MINUIT, a numerical minimization program created at CERN

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