minor
see also: Minor
Pronunciation Adjective
Minor
Proper noun
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see also: Minor
Pronunciation Adjective
minor
- Of little significance or importance.
- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
- a minor scale
- (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
- See also Thesaurus:insignificant
- See also Thesaurus:small
- French: mineur
- German: gering, geringfügig, klein, unbedeutend, untergeordnet, nachgeordnet
- Italian: minore
- Portuguese: menor
- Russian: незначи́тельный
- Spanish: menor
- Russian: ма́лый
minor (plural minors)
- A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
- A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
- I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
- I became an English minor.
- (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
- (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
- (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
- (logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
- s law underage (adjective)
- French: mineur
- German: Minderjähriger, Minderjährige, minderjährige Person
- Italian: minore
- Portuguese: menor
- Russian: несовершенноле́тний
- Spanish: menor, menor de edad
- German: Nebenfach
- Russian: непро́фильный предме́т
minor (minors, present participle minoring; past and past participle minored)
- To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
- I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
Minor
Proper noun
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