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minim
[ min-uhm ]
noun
- the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. : min, min.; : ♍, ♏
- Music. a note, formerly the shortest in use, but now equivalent in time value to one half of a semibreve; half note.
- the least quantity of anything.
- something very small or insignificant.
- (initial capital letter) a member of a mendicant religious order founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
adjective
- smallest.
- very small.
minim
/ ˈmɪnɪm /
noun
- a unit of fluid measure equal to one sixtieth of a drachm. It is approximately equal to one drop M
- music a note having the time value of half a semibreve Usual US and Canadian namehalf-note
- a small or insignificant person or thing
- a downward stroke in calligraphy
adjective
- rare.very small; tiny
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of minim1
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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