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minim

[ min-uhm ]

noun

  1. the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. : min, min.; : ♍, ♏
  2. Music. a note, formerly the shortest in use, but now equivalent in time value to one half of a semibreve; half note.
  3. the least quantity of anything.
  4. something very small or insignificant.
  5. (initial capital letter) a member of a mendicant religious order founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.


adjective

  1. smallest.
  2. very small.

minim

/ ˈmɪnɪm /

noun

  1. a unit of fluid measure equal to one sixtieth of a drachm. It is approximately equal to one drop M
  2. music a note having the time value of half a semibreve Usual US and Canadian namehalf-note
  3. a small or insignificant person or thing
  4. a downward stroke in calligraphy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. rare.
    very small; tiny
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of minim1

1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin, Latin minimus; as musical term, < Medieval Latin ( nota ) minima; minimum
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Word History and Origins

Origin of minim1

C15 (in its musical meaning): from Latin minimus smallest
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Example Sentences

The relation a lived life bears to the black marks on the page is more akin to the way musicians turn minims and crotchets into the sublime craziness, of, say, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.

I vaguely wondered how I might annotate it on a musical stave – a run of semiquavers, a minim’s pause, and triplets: presto agitato!

The patrol says the minim age for operating a motorcycle in North Dakota is 14.

Orth injected ten minims of peritoneal fluid from a woman dead of puerperal fever into the abdomen of a rabbit.

He, according to "Wegeler's Notizen," gives it with a minim—I with a crotchet; but neither of these can, to my mind, be made to suit the character of the movement.

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