minim

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪ.nɪm/

Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

   the minims of existence

5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     These as a line thir^[sic] long dimension drew,
     Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
     not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
     Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.

Translations

• French: blanche
• German: halbe Note
• Portuguese: mínima
• Russian: полови́нная но́та

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Minim

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Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.

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